From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 27 20:21: 0 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc1.tn.home.com (ha1.rdc1.tn.home.com [24.2.7.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8EB0F14A0E for ; Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:20:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from montana1@home.com) Received: from camelot ([24.6.55.158]) by mail.rdc1.tn.home.com (InterMail v4.01.01.00 201-229-111) with SMTP id <19991128042047.QVWR11752.mail.rdc1.tn.home.com@camelot>; Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:20:47 -0800 Reply-To: From: "Mark Einreinhof" To: "Dan O'Connor" , "Freebsd-Questions" Subject: RE: XNTP help Date: Sat, 27 Nov 1999 22:18:02 -0600 Message-ID: <000001bf3957$90214260$0201010a@cmr.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-reply-to: <09fb01bf3952$1342a720$0200000a@danco.home> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In my /var/log/messages: Nov 26 23:49:23 cx559415-b xntpd[1640]: xntpd version=3.4e (beta multicast); Tue May 18 03:30:41 GMT 1999 (1) Nov 26 23:49:23 cx559415-b xntpd[1640]: tickadj = 5, tick = 10000, tvu_maxslew = 495 Nov 26 23:49:23 cx559415-b xntpd[1640]: using xntpd phase-lock loop Nov 26 23:51:06 cx559415-b xntpd[1652]: xntpd version=3.4e (beta multicast); Tue May 18 03:30:41 GMT 1999 (1) Nov 26 23:51:06 cx559415-b xntpd[1652]: tickadj = 5, tick = 10000, tvu_maxslew = 495 Nov 26 23:51:06 cx559415-b xntpd[1652]: using xntpd phase-lock loop My internet is full time, the firewall is set up to pass all, I really only use it for NAT, (IPFilter 3.3.1) /etc/ntp.drift file exists, its contents are: 0.000 0 Cheers -Mark -----Original Message----- From: Dan O'Connor [mailto:dan@jgl.reno.nv.us] Sent: Saturday, November 27, 1999 9:38 PM To: big-sky@altavista.net; Freebsd-Questions Subject: Re: XNTP help >OK, I'm getting really frustrated. Reading the man for xntpd, I'm left >with the impression that xntpd goes out and gets the time sync every >now and then. However, on my machine, it keeps losing time. After a >reboot, the time is fixed, but then slowly moves ahead of the correct >time. Currently it is 1hr 14minutes ahead and I just rebooted it last >night. > >ps -ax displays: >257 ?? S >Entry in rc.conf: >xntpd -b -c /etc/ntp.conf -f /etc/ntp.drift > >Entry ntp.conf: >server tick.uh.edu > >Do I need to set up a cron job for this? Did I type something wrong? Do you get any entries from xntpd in /var/log/messages? Is your Internet connection full-time or dial-out? Do you have a firewall with port 123 blocked? Does /etc/ntp.drift exist? Let us know so we can help you home in on your problem... --Dan ** The thing I like most about Windows 98 is... ** You can download FreeBSD with it! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message