From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Wed Jun 5 14:45:06 2019 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B49DF15B02E0 for ; Wed, 5 Jun 2019 14:45:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doug@fledge.watson.org) Received: from cyrus.watson.org (cyrus.watson.org [204.107.128.30]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A579486255 for ; Wed, 5 Jun 2019 14:45:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doug@fledge.watson.org) Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [198.74.231.63]) by cyrus.watson.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id CFD6A19A239; Wed, 5 Jun 2019 14:44:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fledge.watson.org (doug@localhost.watson.org [127.0.0.1]) by fledge.watson.org (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTP id x55Eixlx039529; Wed, 5 Jun 2019 10:44:59 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from doug@fledge.watson.org) Received: from localhost (doug@localhost) by fledge.watson.org (8.15.2/8.15.2/Submit) with ESMTP id x55EixC6039526; Wed, 5 Jun 2019 10:44:59 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from doug@fledge.watson.org) Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2019 10:44:59 -0400 (EDT) From: doug Reply-To: doug@safeport.com To: "Ronald F. Guilmette" cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ntpd configutration -- a small suggestion from the peanut gallery In-Reply-To: <48793.1559715528@segfault.tristatelogic.com> Message-ID: References: <48793.1559715528@segfault.tristatelogic.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.20 (BSF 67 2015-01-07) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: A579486255 X-Spamd-Bar: ++++++ Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org X-Spamd-Result: default: False [6.53 / 15.00]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; HAS_REPLYTO(0.00)[doug@safeport.com]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; TO_DN_SOME(0.00)[]; NEURAL_SPAM_SHORT(1.00)[0.999,0]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; DMARC_NA(0.00)[watson.org]; REPLYTO_DOM_NEQ_FROM_DOM(0.00)[]; AUTH_NA(1.00)[]; NEURAL_SPAM_MEDIUM(1.00)[1.000,0]; RCVD_COUNT_THREE(0.00)[4]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_SOME(0.00)[]; MX_GOOD(-0.01)[fledge2.watson.org,cyrus.watson.org]; RCPT_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2]; RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE(0.00)[30.128.107.204.list.dnswl.org : 127.0.10.0]; NEURAL_SPAM_LONG(1.00)[1.000,0]; R_SPF_NA(0.00)[]; RCVD_NO_TLS_LAST(0.10)[]; FROM_EQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[]; R_DKIM_NA(0.00)[]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+]; ASN(0.00)[asn:11288, ipnet:204.107.128.0/24, country:US]; MID_RHS_MATCH_FROM(0.00)[]; IP_SCORE(2.54)[ip: (6.76), ipnet: 204.107.128.0/24(3.38), asn: 11288(2.62), country: US(-0.06)] X-Spam: Yes X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 05 Jun 2019 14:45:06 -0000 On Tue, 4 Jun 2019, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: > > During install of my fresh new 12.0-RELEASE system, I was asked > if I wanted to enable ntpd. I clicked the little box to enable > that. > > Now I have the system up and running, and yesa, the date/time isn't > set right.... off by several hours. > > I feel sure that I'll be able to figure out how to get ntpd properly > enabled & configured, but I would just like to offer, hunbly, to the > Powers That Be, that it would be Nice if ntpd, once enabled during > install, just worked, you know, right outta the box. Some easy things: Make sure ntpd started okay; next check the time zone and run tzsetup if it's wrong; add [ntpd_sync_on_start="YES"] to your rc.conf