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Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2003 09:52:59 +1200
From: Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
To: Kurt <kurtbuff@spro.net>
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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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