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Date:      Tue, 8 Jan 2002 16:31:23 -0500 (EST)
From:      doug <doug@safeport.com>
To:        Noah Dunker <ndunker@jccc.net>
Cc:        "'vijay '" <vijay@IPRG.nokia.com>, "'questions '" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   RE: ntp and date command
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.1020108162630.13420A-100000@fledge.watson.org>
In-Reply-To: <C18E28011272D41180AD00B0D0496C0808EB50DE@ns-exch05>

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What version are you running; ntpd is the current program. If you set up a
drift file ntpd will keep the clock fairly close. If you have lots(more
than 1??) sunc one of your hosts to a public time-server and sync the rest
of you network to that host.

www.ntp.org and the FAQ is a good place to start. There is more info on
time keeping than you will ever want to read; and far more than I could
digest :)

On Tue, 8 Jan 2002, Noah Dunker wrote:

> 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<s   ??    0:00.08 /bin/xntpd
> 
> does a time reset like this have an effect of the select system
> call?
> 
> kindly cc me as i am not on the list.
> 
> br, vijay
> 
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