From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 5 13:31:04 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 53D4437B401 for ; Thu, 5 Jun 2003 13:31:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp09.wxs.nl (smtp09.wxs.nl [195.121.6.38]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A7E743FAF for ; Thu, 5 Jun 2003 13:31:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from akruijff@www.kruijff.org) Received: from kruij557.speed.planet.nl (ipd50a97ba.speed.planet.nl [213.10.151.186]) by smtp09.wxs.nl (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.14 (built Mar 18 2003)) with ESMTP id <0HG000MJMZLMUL@smtp09.wxs.nl> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 05 Jun 2003 22:29:47 +0200 (MEST) Received: from Intranet.lan (akruijff@localhost [127.0.0.1]) h55KUvaf018971;akruijff@Intranet.lan) Received: (from akruijff@localhost) by Intranet.lan (8.12.6p2/8.12.6/Submit) id h55KUuiu018970; Thu, 05 Jun 2003 22:30:56 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2003 22:30:56 +0200 From: Alex de Kruijff In-reply-to: <53B18588-9783-11D7-BEC7-000A956888C8@lumeta.com> To: Tom Limoncelli Message-id: <20030605203056.GA18785@dds.nl> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i References: <20030605171152.GA17389@dds.nl> <53B18588-9783-11D7-BEC7-000A956888C8@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 20:31:04 -0000 On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 02:27:13PM -0400, Tom Limoncelli wrote: > 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. I was wondering about that to. Its not that hard to find, since it has a link on the main page of the website. > 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. > There is usaly a refereal section at the end of the manual. It is a idee to included a URL there. This is not possible for non-systems (aka comming from the ports). > >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. I meant you article here. (This may not have bin clear). I find the link is also good. I don't agree on the the shame part. I find the documentation of FreeBSD excelent. The startging point, realy, is the website (www.freebsd.org) and from there one can come to lots of mailinglist, newsgroups, article, and the handbook. I use FreeBSD for these reasons. The handbook is the starting your looking for. I feel that in this case the starter of this tread knew what he wanted to do, but not knew what he needed. I feel that he never would have read one the manuals, because of that. This mailinglist is, amoung other questions, for questions like his. Alex