From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 22 21:25:54 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F52B16A4CE for ; Wed, 22 Sep 2004 21:25:54 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mailgate-internal1.sri.com (mailgate-internal1.SRI.COM [128.18.84.103]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2A05443D49 for ; Wed, 22 Sep 2004 21:25:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from hogsett@csl.sri.com) Received: (qmail 28524 invoked from network); 22 Sep 2004 21:25:53 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO mailgate-internal1.SRI.COM) (127.0.0.1) by mailgate-internal1.sri.com with SMTP; 22 Sep 2004 21:25:53 -0000 Received: from mx1.csl.sri.com ([130.107.1.29])M2004092214255331913 ; Wed, 22 Sep 2004 14:25:53 -0700 Received: from [130.107.2.57] (beast.csl.sri.com [130.107.2.57]) (authenticated bits=0) by mx1.csl.sri.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i8MLPrIv052270 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 22 Sep 2004 14:25:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hogsett@csl.sri.com) Message-ID: <4151EDE1.1030903@csl.sri.com> Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 14:25:53 -0700 From: Mike Hogsett User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (X11/20040913) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: ceo@l-i-e.com References: <415197F9.3080901@verizon.net> <33426.66.243.5.202.1095886185.squirrel@www.l-i-e.com> In-Reply-To: <33426.66.243.5.202.1095886185.squirrel@www.l-i-e.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: "alden.pierre" cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ntpd assistance X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 21:25:54 -0000 Richard Lynch wrote: >>Am I doing something wrong here? My time seems to go out of sync after >>my FreeBSD 4.10 box has been up for a couple of hours. Any help would >>be greatly appreciated. After your machine has booted and run in multiuser mode for several minutes run ntpdc to query ntpd about its status. The command to see its status with its time servers is 'peers', e.g. ;ntpdc ntpdc> peers remote local st poll reach delay offset disp ======================================================================= *zeus.csl.sri.co 130.107.2.57 2 1024 377 0.00079 0.000651 0.01483 =plato.csl.sri.c 130.107.2.57 3 1024 377 0.00035 -0.001401 0.01483 =orion.csl.sri.c 130.107.2.57 3 1024 377 0.00032 -0.001799 0.01483 ntpdc> > It was posted here recenlty that if your security setting is at 1 (?), > then ntp can only change the clock by 1 second... > init(8) states secure level 2 or above. - Mike