From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 30 20:16:25 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9E4016A40F for ; Thu, 30 Nov 2006 20:16:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ciscoaix@yahoo.com) Received: from web90610.mail.mud.yahoo.com (web90610.mail.mud.yahoo.com [216.252.100.193]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9A90043CA2 for ; Thu, 30 Nov 2006 20:16:05 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ciscoaix@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 7992 invoked by uid 60001); 30 Nov 2006 20:16:11 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:Cc:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Message-ID; b=vSyzRRbahpP4lMNrxICPbeGl9sjLmrYufwcAMZsONW3pIyZm18dQp3v4TnWTgZPVx+szsqYuLWPwUjLGgQx0Istd7vxhatI1U0UKRCak3FSH4LY+n3jnKdBODvSKlUqoPx72l4rKnz7UpId/nHXFEdFOzYJLqD8h4CbImP90wuY=; X-YMail-OSG: 89mI.9sVM1kbBEXxkKP3kB6LD99i_SD_OvU4Nq.oiqGhME.YygIx4a1fGmmB4QSbgw_21kag8RM9bAUD53M.lA4CRkuFKMMSvVuWkaBRtphNtxyjsZ94ENVCjYbFYIA1gZdU_6x9aCIJ1rY- Received: from [198.237.17.1] by web90610.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Thu, 30 Nov 2006 12:16:10 PST Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 12:16:10 -0800 (PST) From: Kris Anderson To: Chuck Swiger In-Reply-To: <6A9D9325-7320-4A39-A860-51C3068ED594@mac.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: <1721.7986.qm@web90610.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NTPD not keeping time X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 20:16:25 -0000 --- Chuck Swiger wrote: > On Nov 30, 2006, at 11:16 AM, Kris Anderson wrote: > > I first ran ntpdate from /etc/rc.d/ntpdate and > that > > set the date and time. > > Good. That should have gotten your clock reasonably > sync'ed. > > > Then I ran /etc/rc.d/ntpd and that started up > fine. > > > > The followind day I find that the system still > thinks > > it is the previous day and such. > > > > I thought the purpose of ntp was to keep the time > > correct, why would it be off? > > NTPd does a good job of keeping the clock synced if > properly > configured, so there is likely to be something wrong > with your > specific circumstances. What does "ntpq -p" show? > > -- > -Chuck Here's the output from ntpq. webdev# ntpq -p remote refid st t when poll reach delay offset jitter ============================================================================== time-a.nist.gov .ACTS. 1 u 485 1024 377 78.454 4307608 923174. india.colorado. .ACTS. 1 u 491 1024 377 22.918 4307064 922326. lerc-dns.grc.na .INIT. 16 u - 1024 0 0.000 0.000 4000.00 ____________________________________________________________________________________ Want to start your own business? Learn how on Yahoo! Small Business. http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/r-index