From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 20 11:51:25 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 D5CC837B401 for ; Fri, 20 Sep 2002 11:51:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mgw1-out.MEIway.com (mgw1.meiway.com [212.73.210.75]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46EC143E75 for ; Fri, 20 Sep 2002 11:51:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from LConrad@Go2France.com) Received: from VirusGate.MEIway.com (virus-gate.meiway.com [212.73.210.91]) by mgw1-out.MEIway.com (Postfix Relay Hub) with ESMTP id DE247EF6AA; Fri, 20 Sep 2002 20:37:01 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (localhost.meiway.com [127.0.0.1]) by VirusGate.MEIway.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 55F745D009; Fri, 20 Sep 2002 20:56:57 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mail.Go2France.com (ms1.meiway.com [212.73.210.73]) by VirusGate.MEIway.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E35C5D008; Fri, 20 Sep 2002 20:56:57 +0200 (CEST) Received: from LenConrad.Go2France.com [66.64.14.18] by mail.Go2France.com with ESMTP (SMTPD32-6.06) id AFF14AE8023E; Fri, 20 Sep 2002 20:58:57 +0200 Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.2.20020920134746.0303abe0@mail.Go2France.com> X-Sender: LConrad@Go2France.com@mail.Go2France.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 13:51:12 -0500 To: "Kevin Oberman" , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Len Conrad Subject: Re: time off by 30 minutes In-Reply-To: <20020920183412.082FC5D04@ptavv.es.net> References: 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 >I think that the one you want is: >ntpdate -b > >That will force the system clock to reset even if it is off by more >than the maximum allowed step. It is normally used at boot time when >you want the time to be set correctly immediately since the existing >state of the clock is unknown. # killall ntpd No matching processes were found # date Fri Sep 20 13:15:32 CDT 2002 (always 30 minutes behind wall clock) # ll /etc/localtime lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 35 Sep 20 13:17 /etc/localtime -> /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Chicago # date 1346 Fri Sep 20 13:46:00 CDT 2002 # ntpdate -b time.nist.gov 20 Sep 13:16:44 ntpdate[91924]: step time server 192.43.244.18 offset 1780.295789 sec thanks anyway.... Len ____________________________________________________________________ www.menandmice.com/DNS-training : DNS Training BIND8NT.MEIway.com: Secure config ; DNS and mail interactions IMGate.MEIway.com : Free, proven config for anti-mail-abuse gateways To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message