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Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2002 22:54:09 +0200
From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To: David Loszewski <stealth215@mediaone.net>
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Subject: Re: time server?
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On 2002-02-24 13:49, David Loszewski wrote:
> how do I syncronize my pc to a time/date server?

If you know of an NTP server near you, you can just run (as root):

	ntpdate SERVER

replacing SERVER with the hostname or IP address of the NTP server.

This will only synchronize your time once, though.  If you want to
continuously keep the clock synchronized with the time server, you will
have to use ntpd.  The simple /etc/ntp.conf I made for testing clock
synchronization with two NTP servers around here is:

	disable auth
	server ntp.ntua.gr
	server ntp.duth.gr
	restrict 0.0.0.0 noserve

Then, I enabled ntpd in rc.conf:

	$ grep ntp /etc/rc.conf
	xntpd_enable="YES"
	ntpdate_enable="NO"

Giorgos Keramidas                           FreeBSD Documentation Project
keramida@{freebsd.org,ceid.upatras.gr}      http://www.FreeBSD.org/docproj/

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