From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 11 9:55:11 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from donhm.calcasieu.com (tcnet26-033.austin.texas.net [209.99.98.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CB7414E4E for ; Thu, 11 Nov 1999 09:54:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dread@donhm.calcasieu.com) Received: (from dread@localhost) by donhm.calcasieu.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA08407; Thu, 11 Nov 1999 11:52:14 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dread) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 11:52:12 -0600 (CST) From: Don Read To: Jonathon McKitrick Subject: Re: mysterious xntpd Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Dan Nelson Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 11-Nov-99 Jonathon McKitrick wrote: > But doesn't ntpdate do the samw thing in one quick step, without needing > anything after that? In the Complete FreeBSD, it implied that > intermittent connections would probably do better with ntpdate. When i > run it, it just seems to instantly set the right time and exit, with no > daemons or synch time to worry about. > on my home box, root has the crontab entry: 17 0,6,21 * * * /usr/sbin/ntpdate tick.usno.navy.mil >> /var/log/ntp.log -- Don Read dread@calcasieu.com EDP Manager dread@texas.net Calcasieu Lumber Co. Austin TX -- No Coffee No Peace To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message