From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 14 16:34:43 2002 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 0457337B400 for ; Wed, 14 Aug 2002 16:34:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from q.closedsrc.org (ip233.gte15.rb1.bel.nwlink.com [209.20.244.233]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA00F43E81 for ; Wed, 14 Aug 2002 16:34:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lplist@closedsrc.org) Received: by q.closedsrc.org (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 06272529F; Wed, 14 Aug 2002 16:34:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by q.closedsrc.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF504529C; Wed, 14 Aug 2002 16:34:35 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 16:34:35 -0700 (PDT) From: Linh Pham To: MET Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Setting the Time || Public Time Servers In-Reply-To: <000301c243eb$4bb5dae0$6901a8c0@SURVIVAL> Message-ID: <20020814163318.B12793-100000@q.closedsrc.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 On 2002-08-14, MET scribbled: # How would I make my BSD machine get its time from something like a # public time server so that reports the correct time? You can use the ntpdate utility to query and set the system's date. You can set it to sync your clock upon startup by adding the proper lines to /etc/rc.conf (check the man page rc.conf(5) for the proper options) or add it to a crontab. You must be root to set the system's clock. -- Linh Pham lplist@closedsrc.org Webmaster and FreeBSD Geek http://closedsrc.org closedsrc.org Every solution breeds new problems To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message