Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 12:39:56 -0600 From: Chris <racerx@makeworld.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ntpd Message-ID: <200402251239.56975.racerx@makeworld.com> In-Reply-To: <BAY15-F27xJJRRBItJg00006099@hotmail.com> References: <BAY15-F27xJJRRBItJg00006099@hotmail.com>
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On Wednesday 25 February 2004 12:33 pm, Brian H wrote: > Greetings: > I am trying to setup my bsd box as a ntp server. > I basically want all machines on my local network to > sync times with this bsd time server. I start the server > with the command `ntpd -A -l /var/log/ntpd.log`. I verify > that the server is running with ps and `netstat -na | grep udp`, > but when I look in the logs i see the following > > /var/log/ntpd.log > ---- > ntpd 4.1.0-a Mon Oct 27 14:55:18 GMT 2003 (1) > kernel time discipline status 2040 > Un-parsable frequency in /etc/ntp.drift > > > Any thoughts on what I can do to get this server working. > when i try to sync from another machine on the network > I get the following error: no servers can be used, exiting. > > Thanks, > > Brian My /etc/rc.conf looks like this - Compare it to yours. ntpd_enable="YES" ntpd_program="/usr/sbin/ntpd" ntpd_flags="-c /etc/ntp.conf" ntpd_flags="-p /var/run/ntpd.pid -f /var/db/ntpd.drift" Perhaps touch ntpd.drift in /var/db/ ? -- Best regards, Chris
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