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Date:      Thu, 5 Jun 2003 14:27:13 -0400
From:      Tom Limoncelli <tal@lumeta.com>
To:        Alex de Kruijff <akruijff@dds.nl>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Can I synchronise local time with some NTP-server?
Message-ID:  <53B18588-9783-11D7-BEC7-000A956888C8@lumeta.com>
In-Reply-To: <20030605171152.GA17389@dds.nl>

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On Thursday, June 5, 2003, at 01:11  PM, Alex de Kruijff wrote:

> 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.

Yet of all the email on this topic, nobody pointed out this most  
excellent article.

Of the many problems with the man page system, this is one that has  
always been a torn in my side.  I feel that man pages should have a  
"getting started" section, even if it only points to articles like the  
one you suggested.

> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network- 
> ntp.html


> P.S. Its a good article. :-)

I agree.  It's a shame that the first place that people turn for help  
(the man pages) doesn't refer to it.

-tal



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