From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 9 17:17:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9C4837B8D1 for ; Thu, 9 Mar 2000 17:17:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id UAA80596; Thu, 9 Mar 2000 20:22:41 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 20:22:41 -0500 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: Bhishan Hemrajani Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: syslogd/ntpdate Message-ID: <20000309202241.B80084@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Reply-To: cjclark@home.com References: <200003090050.QAA55826@cytosine.dhs.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <200003090050.QAA55826@cytosine.dhs.org>; from bhishan@cytosine.dhs.org on Wed, Mar 08, 2000 at 04:50:38PM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Mar 08, 2000 at 04:50:38PM -0800, Bhishan Hemrajani wrote: > My clock on my machine is really messed up, and xntpd doesn't > align it properly. How are you trying to configure xntpd(8)? It should work. > So, I have to run ntpdate every 10seconds. Yuck. > I don't mind this, except that ntpdate fills up my log files > completely. I have ntpdate starting w/the -s option, so it > sends the message to syslog instead of all the terminals > logged in. > > Is there any way to have ntpdate not tell anything about > what it is doing? It doesn't have an option in the manpage > for it. > > And, I tried the manpage for syslogd, to see if I could have > syslogd ignore messages from ntpdate. But, no luck. Huh? From syslog.conf(5), The facility describes the part of the system generating the message, and is one of the following keywords: auth, authpriv, cron, daemon, ftp, kern, lpr, mail, mark, news, ntp, syslog, user, uucp and local0 through local7. ^^^ -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message