From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 5 11:27:18 2003 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 BDF3137B401 for ; Thu, 5 Jun 2003 11:27:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from exgw2.lumeta.com (exgw2.lumeta.com [65.198.68.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 715D143FB1 for ; Thu, 5 Jun 2003 11:27:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tal@lumeta.com) Received: from lucy.corp.lumeta.com (h65-246-245-10.lumeta.com [65.246.245.10]) by exgw2.lumeta.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D418637383B; Thu, 5 Jun 2003 14:27:13 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (localhost.corp.lumeta.com [127.0.0.1]) by lucy.corp.lumeta.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8556A898D; Thu, 5 Jun 2003 14:27:13 -0400 (EDT) Received: from lucy.corp.lumeta.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (lucy.corp.lumeta.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 20526-03; Thu, 5 Jun 2003 14:27:13 -0400 (EDT) Received: from lumeta.com (talmacmm.corp.lumeta.com [65.246.246.66]) by lucy.corp.lumeta.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 477EDA8986; Thu, 5 Jun 2003 14:27:13 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2003 14:27:13 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; delsp=yes; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v552) To: Alex de Kruijff From: Tom Limoncelli In-Reply-To: <20030605171152.GA17389@dds.nl> Message-Id: <53B18588-9783-11D7-BEC7-000A956888C8@lumeta.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.552) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at lumeta.com cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can I synchronise local time with some NTP-server? 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: Thu, 05 Jun 2003 18:27:19 -0000 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