From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 12 11:49:51 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pemaquid.safeport.com (pemaquid.safeport.com [204.156.12.58]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F072237B404 for ; Fri, 12 Apr 2002 11:49:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (doug@localhost) by pemaquid.safeport.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g3CIYrt69684; Fri, 12 Apr 2002 14:34:58 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from doug@safeport.com) Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 14:34:53 -0400 (EDT) From: To: "Bryan K. Ogawa" Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: grr, stupid springforwardfallback (timed) In-Reply-To: <200204121732.g3CHWlAd006668@baz.fake.primenet.com> Message-ID: 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 I run the two on a my laptop because (a) my clock will drift by a large amount by the time I get on and off a plane, (b) I want to sync with my network wherever I may be, (c) using ntpdate only at boot works with no problems. The only hard thing to do was (is) figuring out the auth stuff (a work in progrress) so I do not have to do anything except connect when I travel. For the stationary systems it seems much more logical to run a single time server and sync the other hosts from that. On Fri, 12 Apr 2002, Bryan K. Ogawa wrote: > One option which avoids ntpd's vagaries (e.g. it complaining about > getting out of sync, and stopping working) is to run ntpdate out of > cron. I usually run it once an hour or so. > > -- > bryan k ogawa http://www.idiom.com/~bko/ > _____ Douglas Denault doug@safeport.com Voice: 301-469-8766 Fax: 301-469-0601 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message