Date: Fri, 10 Dec 1999 13:19:59 -0800 (PST) From: David Wolfskill <dhw@whistle.com> To: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.org, josh@bigcity.net Subject: Re: Setting time and date via ntp. Message-ID: <199912102119.NAA64672@pau-amma.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <005101bf434a$1ddfa460$41b0dece@bigcity.net>
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>From: "Josh Bell" <josh@bigcity.net> >Date: Fri, 10 Dec 1999 14:06:59 -0600 >Can you not use ntpdate? I know that a stock system of FreeBSD comes with >ntpdate, even as far back as 2.2.2 if not earlier. I dont see why this isnt >possible to be used. What are the advantages on xntpd over ntpdate or vise >versa? Well, they aren't mutually exclusive. I normally set up a machine to use ntpdate during the /etc/rc stuff just after boot time, to get the date/time correct at first, and then fire off xntpd in order to maintain synchronization. xntpd doesn't tend to perform arbitrarily large changes to the system's notion of the current (date and) time; ntpdate will. I don't recall whether or not xntpd also ensures that any change that it makes still only permits the time to increase monotonically, as it should. Cheers, david -- David Wolfskill dhw@whistle.com UNIX System Administrator voice: (650) 577-7158 pager: (888) 347-0197 FAX: (650) 372-5915 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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