From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 8 13:31:45 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [204.156.12.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54FCF37B419 for ; Tue, 8 Jan 2002 13:31:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (doug@localhost) by fledge.watson.org (8.11.6/8.11.5) with SMTP id g08LVOW29462; Tue, 8 Jan 2002 16:31:24 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from doug@safeport.com) X-Authentication-Warning: fledge.watson.org: doug owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2002 16:31:23 -0500 (EST) From: doug X-Sender: doug@fledge.watson.org To: Noah Dunker Cc: "'vijay '" , "'questions '" Subject: RE: ntp and date command In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 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 > 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 > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message