Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2003 09:52:59 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> To: Kurt <kurtbuff@spro.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NTP broadcast client Message-ID: <20030712215259.GB1519@grimoire.chen.org.nz> In-Reply-To: <020201c348bb$b97b5de0$3f05a8c0@bfgapollo1> References: <020201c348bb$b97b5de0$3f05a8c0@bfgapollo1>
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On Sat, Jul 12, 2003 at 02:22:39PM -0700, Kurt wrote:
> Howdy all,
>
> I've got a Windows machine running Tardis ( nice piece of shareware) on
> my network, and it's broadcasting ntp updates on the subnet. I'm trying
> to get my freebsd machines to listen to those broadcasts to maintain
> their own clocks, rather than querying the outside servers.
>
> I've got the following line in my rc.conf, which I read *somewhere*
> after much googling that it would simply start the ntp daemon in
> listening mode:
>
> ntpd_enable="YES"
>
> However, I see no ntp daemon, and am wondering just where I went
> wrong....
You're missing a /etc/ntp.conf. ntp.conf(5). This needs to contain the
line:
broadcastclient
--
Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
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