From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Apr 11 7:26: 0 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from cytosine.dhs.org (cx272244-a.orng1.occa.home.com [24.1.177.149]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 388CD37BA66 for ; Tue, 11 Apr 2000 07:25:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bhishan@cytosine.dhs.org) Received: (from bhishan@localhost) by cytosine.dhs.org (8.10.0/8.10.0) id e3BEOrl10337; Tue, 11 Apr 2000 07:24:53 -0700 (PDT) From: Bhishan Hemrajani Message-Id: <200004111424.e3BEOrl10337@cytosine.dhs.org> Subject: Re: Kernel adjustment for clock drift In-Reply-To: from Greg Black at "Apr 11, 2000 12:02:28 pm" To: Greg Black Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 07:24:53 -0700 (PDT) Cc: FreeBSD-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL61 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Try xntpd --bhishan [Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] > 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 -- > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message