From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 11 9:29: 3 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from probity.mcc.ac.uk (probity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.94]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F06114D06 for ; Thu, 11 Nov 1999 09:28:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97]) by probity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 1.92 #3) id 11ly1o-0004KF-00; Thu, 11 Nov 1999 17:28:56 +0000 Received: from localhost (jcm@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id RAA49446; Thu, 11 Nov 1999 17:28:52 GMT (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 17:28:52 +0000 (GMT) From: Jonathon McKitrick To: Greg Lehey Cc: Dan Nelson , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mysterious xntpd In-Reply-To: <19991111122322.03693@mojave.sitaranetworks.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have a one-line script that i call from root when i am connected. To run this command or ntpdate directly, all i need to do is include that line in ppp.linkup? I thought ppp.linkup was commands specific to ppp? How do i distinguish calls to an external command? On Thu, 11 Nov 1999, Greg Lehey wrote: >On Thursday, 11 November 1999 at 11:03:38 -0600, Dan Nelson wrote: >> In the last episode (Nov 11), Jonathon McKitrick said: >>> So what makes sense for keeping time on a laptop with a PP connection >>> once a day? >> >> xntpd :) It can maintain correct time even if it can only contact its >> time source for a couple hours each day. I believe it needs about 1/2 >> hour of continuous connect time to synch after a disconnect. > >Fine, but that's a lot longer than ntpdate needs. In addition, it >will keep trying to establish contact, which can be undesirable. >ntpdate is the obvious choice for a dialup connection; you can put it >in the linkup script and it will set the date even before you know >you're connected. > >>> I tried setting it once, and ended up with GMT (Zulu Time) and it >>> took me a while to get the zone right. Now i just have a little >>> script called jtime that i run whenever that calles ntpdate. Does >>> this make sense? >> >> xntpd and ntpdate both set the time in the same way. You must have >> had some other timezone problem. > >Right, this issue has nothing to do with ntp. Check your >/etc/localtime file. It should be a copy of your local time zone file >in the /usr/share/zoneinfo hierarchy. > >Greg >-- >When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. >For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html >Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key >See complete headers for address and phone numbers > -jonathon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message