Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 16:23:24 -0700 From: "Brian" <bri@sonicboom.org> To: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com>, <FJU@Fritzilldo.com> Cc: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Setting the time... Message-ID: <04ce01c14098$efca3e20$3324200a@sonicboom.org> References: <004d01c13ffd$f5713f40$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com>
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Actually it appears that ntpd, in the case where time is off substantially,
will still adjust it, altho slowly. I took a box whose time was off by a
couple minutes and fired up ntpd. It appears as though the max change per
ntpd check is 1 second, so it took a couple days for it to become right.
Brian
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com>
To: "Brian Whalen" <bri@sonicboom.org>; <FJU@Fritzilldo.com>
Cc: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Monday, September 17, 2001 9:54 PM
Subject: RE: Setting the time...
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Brian Whalen
> >Sent: Monday, September 17, 2001 2:07 PM
> >To: FJU@Fritzilldo.com
> >Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> >Subject: Re: Setting the time...
> >
> >
> >I would reboot it to use the bios and get as close as you can.
> >
> >Use of ntpdate or ntpd after that is the norm..
> >
>
> Let me clear somthing up - you should almost always use both ntpdate and
> ntpd hand-in-hand.
>
> xntpd will not synchronize the time at boot if it finds the system time is
too
> wildly off. This is why ntpdate is run once, before ntpd is started.
ntpdate
> forces the system clock to the correct time at boot and ntpd keeps it
there.
>
> Also when the system shuts down the adjkerntz program will reset the BIOS
> clock to the current time.
>
> Ted Mittelstaedt
tedm@toybox.placo.com
> Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's
Guide
> Book website:
http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com
>
>
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