Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 15:35:59 +0200 From: Michal Mertl <michal.mertl@i.cz> To: Benjamin Keating <motionsiren@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Setting up ntpd on FreeBSD (5.4) Message-ID: <1115991359.1538.30.camel@genius1.i.cz> In-Reply-To: <781e2bc005051215274e18ad18@mail.gmail.com> References: <781e2bc005051215274e18ad18@mail.gmail.com>
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Benjamin Keating wrote: > I'm running a generic install of FreeBSD 5.4 and would like to setup > ntpd. ntpdate doesn't do me much good as I rarely reboot, but I took > the handbooks suggestion of using it anyway (and I've verified it > works)). Anyway, I'm having trouble setting up ntpd and it'd be great > if I could get your input on my steps. > > I'd like for other machines on my network to talk to this one (ntpd > server) to get the time rather then define each machine with it's own > public ntpd servers. > > 1). Add ntpd_enable="YES" to /etc/rc.conf > 2). Create /etc/ntp.conf and (touch) /etc/ntp/ntp.drift /etc/ntp directory isn't used by default on 5.4. The default location for ntp.drift file is /var/db. I've never created it by hand (not even by 'touching' it), it gets created automatically. > > Permissions: > /etc/ntp.conf -rw-r--r-- root:wheel > /etc/ntp/ntp.drift -rw-r--r-- root:wheel > > %<----- BEGIN /etc/ntp.conf ----- > restrict 192.168.1.0 mask 255.255.255.0 nomodify notrap > > server clepsydra.dec.com > server clock.fmt.he.net > server clock.isc.org > > driftfile /etc/ntp/ntp.drift > >%----- END /etc/ntp.conf ----- > > I rebooted and watched my /var/log/messages and saw: > > May 12 15:17:08 toki ntpd[349]: Frequency format error in /etc/ntp/ntp.drift > > I did a sockstat -l and you can see ntpd is running (BTW, is there > anyway to have it not listen to for IPv6? I only use 4 and I hate > seeing that clutter). I don't know. I run kernels without IPv6 so I only get a warning message it can't bind to IPv6. Have you searched the documentation in /usr/share/doc/ntp? After a quick search I haven't found anything but it well may be there. Some programs don't compile IPv6 support is NO_INET6 is defined (e.g. in /etc/make.conf) but ntp utilities' source doesn't contain the string so this wouldn't probably help either. > > What am I doing wrong? /etc/ntp/ntp.drift is writeable by root, which > ntpd is running as... Im confused. Anyhelp would be greatly > appreciated. Thanks > > - bpk
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