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Date:      Tue, 11 Apr 2000 07:24:53 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Bhishan Hemrajani <bhishan@cytosine.dhs.org>
To:        Greg Black <gjb-freebsd@gba.oz.au>
Cc:        FreeBSD-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Kernel adjustment for clock drift
Message-ID:  <200004111424.e3BEOrl10337@cytosine.dhs.org>
In-Reply-To: <nospam-38f287b4dd01d59@maxim.gba.oz.au> from Greg Black at "Apr 11, 2000 12:02:28 pm"

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Try xntpd

--bhishan

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> I've been away from the FreeBSD lists for ages and am looking
> for an update on clock drift management under FreeBSD-3.4R.  I
> asked this on -questions, but got no answers.  Perhaps somebody
> here knows the answer.
> 
> I have a machine that drifts about 7 seconds a day and I'd like
> to tweak something in the kernel to keep it closer to the truth.
> The clock gets corrected once a day by ntpdate, but I'd like to
> avoid such big adjustments.
> 
> In the past I used a sysctl under BSDI's BSD/OS to adjust the
> value of `tick', but the whole kern.clockrate struct is marked
> as not changeable under FreeBSD.
> 
> If anybody can tell me which FM has the answer (or even the
> actual answer), I'd be grateful.  If your answer includes terms
> such as {,x}ntpd, then please don't bother, because that's not
> the answer (or even an answer) to this particular question.
> 
> Please copy any replies to me as my subscription to the list is
> going off with this message and won't be completed for some
> time.
> 
> -- 
> Greg Black -- <gjb@acm.org>
> 
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