From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 20 14:22:41 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA26112 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 20 Aug 1998 14:22:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from echonyc.com (echonyc.com [198.67.15.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA26094 for ; Thu, 20 Aug 1998 14:22:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from benedict@echonyc.com) Received: from localhost (benedict@localhost) by echonyc.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id RAA13643 for ; Thu, 20 Aug 1998 17:21:50 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 17:21:48 -0400 (EDT) From: Snob Art Genre Reply-To: ben@rosengart.com To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: time Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I am a bit bewildered by the following section in /etc/rc.conf: timed_enable="NO" # Run the time daemon (or NO). timed_flags="" # Flags to timed (if enabled). ntpdate_enable="NO" # Run the ntpdate to sync time (or NO). ntpdate_program="ntpdate" # path to ntpdate, if you want a different one. ntpdate_flags="" # Flags to ntpdate (if enabled). xntpd_enable="NO" # Run xntpd Network Time Protocol (or NO). xntpd_program="xntpd" # path to xntpd, if you want a different one. xntpd_flags="-p /var/run/xntpd.pid" # Flags to xntpd (if enabled). tickadj_enable="NO" # Run tickadj (or NO). tickadj_flags="-Aq" # Flags to tickadj (if enabled). If I wish to use NTP to synchronize my system clock, and serve NTP so the other machine on my network can synch to that, which of these do I enable? More generally, are these options mutually exclusive, or do they work together? Also, does anyone know a good NTP source on the east coast of the U.S.? Thanks in advance. Ben "You have your mind on computers, it seems." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message