Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 13:51:12 -0500 From: Len Conrad <LConrad@Go2France.com> To: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: time off by 30 minutes Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.2.20020920134746.0303abe0@mail.Go2France.com> In-Reply-To: <20020920183412.082FC5D04@ptavv.es.net> References: <Your message of "Fri, 20 Sep 2002 23:50:56 %2B1000." <Pine.LNX.4.44.0209202348080.360-100000@hobbit.cit.gu.edu.au>
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>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
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