Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2003 19:11:52 +0200 From: Alex de Kruijff <akruijff@dds.nl> To: Tom Limoncelli <tal@lumeta.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can I synchronise local time with some NTP-server? Message-ID: <20030605171152.GA17389@dds.nl> In-Reply-To: <63FA07D4-975D-11D7-A0C3-000A956888C8@lumeta.com> References: <3EDE4A67.3@rbcmail.ru> <63FA07D4-975D-11D7-A0C3-000A956888C8@lumeta.com>
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On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 09:55:39AM -0400, Tom Limoncelli wrote: > [ I'm CC:'ing webmaster@ntp.org so that he can add this as a "How to > get started" document to the web site. ] > > On Wednesday, June 4, 2003, at 03:37 PM, Constantine wrote: > > >Hello! > > > >I am running FreeBSD 4.8. How can I synchronise my clock with some NTP > >server? The time on my server right now is 4 minutes fast, and I do > >not like that... Can I set up a script that would automatically > >synchronise the time with some available server? > > > >My server is located in the USA, in case one would like to suggest > >some good servers to synchronise with. :-) > > I don't think that "read the man page" is a very good answer. The man > page doesn't explain things very well (if someone would like to submit > what I write below to the maintainer, please do so). > > Hi, The man page are not meant for this, there scope is limmited to the command. Books and article are. In fact the FreeBSD handbook have a section about this. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-ntp.html Alex P.S. Its a good article. :-)
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