Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 15:46:03 -0800 From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjclark@reflexnet.net> To: User Land <userland@techie.com> Cc: cjclark@alum.mit.edu, danny@ricin.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: rc & ntp weirdness Message-ID: <20001206154603.A68045@149.211.6.64.reflexcom.com> In-Reply-To: <384520112.976119941188.JavaMail.root@web651-mc>; from userland@techie.com on Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 11:25:41AM -0500 References: <384520112.976119941188.JavaMail.root@web651-mc>
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On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 11:25:41AM -0500, User Land wrote: [snip] > >How do you know that ntpd is not doing anything? > Over several (about 10 days, actually), there were no time > adjustments logged in /var/log/messages, That is expected. ntpd(8) only logs large changes. > and ntp.drift never got > created. Hmmm... It should show up after an hour or so. > I was able to use ntpdc to talk to the local server, but, not > knowing what exactly to look for, I'm not sure what to do. Try, $ ntpdc -c peers > I have a FreeBSD 4.1 machine with exactly the same rc.conf > directives for ntpd and the same ntp.conf file, and it functions > as I expect: time adjustments a couple of times per day. That is actually not expected. A properly functioning ntpd should not need to be doing large adjustements. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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