From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 18 16:24:10 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cx175057-a.ocnsd1.sdca.home.com (cx175057-a.ocnsd1.sdca.home.com [24.13.23.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE40E37B407 for ; Tue, 18 Sep 2001 16:24:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from brian (cx175057-b.ocnsd1.sdca.home.com [24.13.23.147]) by cx175057-a.ocnsd1.sdca.home.com (8.11.6/8.11.3) with SMTP id f8INNll05900; Tue, 18 Sep 2001 16:23:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bri@sonicboom.org) Message-ID: <04ce01c14098$efca3e20$3324200a@sonicboom.org> From: "Brian" To: "Ted Mittelstaedt" , Cc: References: <004d01c13ffd$f5713f40$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> Subject: Re: Setting the time... Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 16:23:24 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 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 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" To: "Brian Whalen" ; Cc: 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 > > > > 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