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Date:      Fri, 10 Sep 2004 23:21:55 +0530
From:      Shantanoo <shantanoo@gmail.com>
To:        "Matthias F. Brandstetter" <haimat@lame.at>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: how to update system time?
Message-ID:  <2301747004091010514a3271d@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <200409101942.51769.haimat@lame.at>
References:  <200409101942.51769.haimat@lame.at>

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On Fri, 10 Sep 2004 19:42:51 +0200, Matthias F. Brandstetter
<haimat@lame.at> wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> first: hello to all FreeBSD users out there ;)
> After using Linux for several years, I want to try out FreeBSD for some of
> my servers now. I am coming from Gentoo Linux, so I am somewhat "used" to
> the ports system...
> 
> Ok, now to my first question: I am setting up my 2nd FreeBSD box now. On my
> first test machine I installed "rdate" (instead of "ntpdate"); I can
> update system time w/o problems there.
> 
> But when I try to update system time on the 2nd box now, I get no errors
> from rdate, but my time and date is not updated afterwards. When I try it
> with ntpdate (with same time server), I get the following error:
> 
> 6 Sep 15:22:01 ntpdate[330]: no server suitable for synchronization found

Is the computer properly networked? can it ping yahoo.com?
the computer is not able to reach the ntp server. try pool.ntp.org

Regards,
Shantanoo



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