Date: 10 Sep 2004 15:11:08 -0400 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: "Matthias F. Brandstetter" <haimat@lame.at> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how to update system time? Message-ID: <448ybiq6r7.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <200409102000.52343.haimat@lame.at> References: <200409101942.51769.haimat@lame.at> <2301747004091010514a3271d@mail.gmail.com> <200409102000.52343.haimat@lame.at>
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"Matthias F. Brandstetter" <haimat@lame.at> writes: > The computer _is_ able to reach the ntp server. > See this example: > > [ 17:34 mx2@ebox ~ ] date > Fri Sep 10 17:35:00 CEST 2004 > [ 17:35 mx2@ebox ~ ] rdate time.fu-berlin.de > Fri Sep 10 19:57:55 2004 > [ 17:35 mx2@ebox ~ ] rdate -s time.fu-berlin.de > [ 17:35 mx2@ebox ~ ] date > Fri Sep 10 17:35:27 CEST 2004 > [ 17:35 mx2@ebox ~ ] ntpdate time.fu-berlin.de > 10 Sep 17:35:42 ntpdate[8708]: no server suitable for synchronization found > [ 17:35 mx2@ebox ~ ] time.fu-berlin.de is not an ntp server, so that's a different problem than rdate. > I really wonder why system time isn't set, because as said I use the rdate > tool on another FreeBSD machine and the same time server w/o any > problems... > > Any other ideas? I seem to recall that rdate isn't very good at giving error information. Are the two systems configured identically? A raised securelevel(8) (level 2 or higher) will keep the time from getting changed by more than 1 second...
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