From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 15 16:50:32 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D65637B401 for ; Thu, 15 Aug 2002 16:50:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mta08.mail.mel.aone.net.au (mta08.mail.au.uu.net [203.2.192.89]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B253E43E81 for ; Thu, 15 Aug 2002 16:50:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rbyrnes@ozemail.com.au) Received: from ausyddtp0050.ozemail.com.au ([203.166.67.234]) by mta08.mail.mel.aone.net.au with ESMTP id <20020815234845.ENOK14500.mta08.mail.mel.aone.net.au@ausyddtp0050.ozemail.com.au>; Fri, 16 Aug 2002 09:48:45 +1000 Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.2.20020816094651.03de7070@pop.ozemail.com.au> X-Sender: rbyrnes@pop.ozemail.com.au X-Mailer: I wish it was Linux Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2002 09:48:07 +1000 To: "MET" From: Rob B Subject: RE: Setting the Time || Public Time Servers Cc: In-Reply-To: <002c01c2447e$c99af920$6901a8c0@SURVIVAL> References: <20020815080545.GA389@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 13:11 15/08/2002 -0400, MET sent this up the stick: >Where would I get a list of ntpd servers so that I can run > > ntpdate_enable="YES" > ntpdate_flags="-b -t10 -u ntp1.example.com ntp2.example.com" > >Or > > xntpd_enable="YES" > xntpd_flags="-g -p /var/run/ntpd.pid" ntpdate only sets the system clock at boot, xntpd keeps checking to correct for drift. Make sure you ONLY sync against stratum 2 servers, it's poor form to sync against a stratum 1 server. Cheers, Rob >-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG] On Behalf Of Roman >Neuhauser >Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2002 4:06 AM >To: MET >Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >Subject: Re: Setting the Time || Public Time Servers > > > > From: "MET" > > To: > > Subject: Setting the Time || Public Time Servers > > Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 19:35:33 -0400 > > > > How would I make my BSD machine get its time from something like a > > public time server so that reports the correct time? > > If you boot your machine often, you may want to use ntpdate. It > synces on startup only. > > ntpdate_enable="YES" > ntpdate_flags="-b -t10 -u ntp1.example.com ntp2.example.com" > > If your machine stays up for extended periods of time, you would > prefer ntpd, which synces every 64 - 1024 seconds. > > xntpd_enable="YES" > xntpd_flags="-g -p /var/run/ntpd.pid" > > /etc/ntp.conf: > server ntp1.example.com > server ntp2.example.com > server ntp3.example.com > > >-- >FreeBSD 4.6-STABLE >9:57AM up 5 days, 21:52, 17 users, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- NO CARRIER This is random quote 830 of a collection of 1254 [15200.8 km (8207.8 mi), 262.8 deg](Apparent) Rennerian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message