From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 8 12:16: 1 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns-exch05.jccc.net (ns-exch05.jccc.net [198.248.56.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5356F37B41D for ; Tue, 8 Jan 2002 12:15:53 -0800 (PST) Received: by ns-exch05 with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Tue, 8 Jan 2002 14:14:02 -0600 Message-ID: From: Noah Dunker To: 'vijay ' , 'questions ' Subject: RE: ntp and date command Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2002 14:14:01 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I think xntpd only checks a few times a day, but I'm not sure. ntpdate(8) is the command you would use to re-sync your own system time back to normal on-demand. On my machines I usually run this at startup as well as a daemon to sync up every so often. It gets the time and date from my firewall, which is running both a time server and client, and updates from the time server from a local university. -----Original Message----- From: vijay To: questions Sent: 1/8/02 2:06 PM Subject: ntp and date command hello - what is the expected result when time is set backwards my more than 1000s using the date command while xntpd is running in the system? xntpd seems to be sleeping select I