From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 20 16:28:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fedde.littleton.co.us (fedde.littleton.co.us [216.17.174.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1162537B42C for ; Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fedde.littleton.co.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fedde.littleton.co.us (8.11.0/8.11.0.Beta3) with ESMTP id e7KNSdj01383; Sun, 20 Aug 2000 17:28:39 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <200008202328.e7KNSdj01383@fedde.littleton.co.us> To: Len Conrad Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: some machines won't run xntpd In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20000821010534.02f2af00@mail.Go2France.com> From: Chris Fedde Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2000 17:28:39 -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 21 Aug 2000 01:07:44 +0200 Len Conrad wrote: +------------------ | | >On Sun, 20 Aug 2000 22:54:23 +0200 Len Conrad wrote: | > +------------------ | > | On these two machines, the ntpd won't unloads (can't see it "ps aux | | > | grep ntp"). | > | | > | What's going on? | > +------------------ | > | >Also it could have something to do with CMOS clock setting | | something like what, if CMOS was totally wrong or dead battery? | | >and the existance or absence of /etc/wall_cmos_clock. | | what's wall_cmos_clock ? +------------------ I don't what to quote the manual at you. /etc/wall_cmos_clock is discussed in the adjkerntz(8) manual page. It helps the kernel figure out if the CMOS clock is set to local time or UTC. Another thought I had after posting is to check that /etc/localtime is correct. chris -- Chris Fedde 303 773 9134 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message