From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 25 8:54:14 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from woozle.rinet.ru (woozle.rinet.ru [195.54.192.68]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07C7A37B41B; Fri, 25 Jan 2002 08:54:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (marck@localhost) by woozle.rinet.ru (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g0PGrnF29312; Fri, 25 Jan 2002 19:53:55 +0300 (MSK) (envelope-from marck@rinet.ru) Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 19:53:49 +0300 (MSK) From: Dmitry Morozovsky To: David McNett Cc: Petar Forai , , Subject: Re: 4.5/SMP clock drifting In-Reply-To: <20020123225433.GA63096@dazed.slacker.com> Message-ID: <20020125195231.U69684-100000@woozle.rinet.ru> X-NCC-RegID: ru.rinet MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 23 Jan 2002, David McNett wrote: DM> You should instead look at using ntpd (it's in the base install) which DM> will accurately track and account for the hardware drift unlike your DM> ntpdate solution. DM> DM> Set up an /etc/ntp.conf file with: DM> DM> server timeserver1.domain.com DM> server timeserver2.otherdomain.com DM> DM> driftfile /var/run/ntpd.drift Hmm, I think then driftfile will be removed on every reboot, which is not very useful. So, I create it at /var/spool/ntp.drift for our machines Sincerely, D.Marck [DM5020, DM268-RIPE, DM3-RIPN] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *** Dmitry Morozovsky --- D.Marck --- Wild Woozle --- marck@rinet.ru *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message