From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 28 06:38:31 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CCED37B401 for ; Mon, 28 Apr 2003 06:38:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lv.raad.tartu.ee (lv.raad.tartu.ee [194.126.106.110]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98D0243F3F for ; Mon, 28 Apr 2003 06:38:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee) Received: Message by Barricade lv.raad.tartu.ee with ESMTP id h3SDcKP18498; Mon, 28 Apr 2003 16:38:20 +0300 Message-Id: <200304281338.h3SDcKP18498@lv.raad.tartu.ee> Received: from INFO/SpoolDir by raad.tartu.ee (Mercury 1.48); 28 Apr 03 16:38:19 +0300 Received: from SpoolDir by INFO (Mercury 1.48); 28 Apr 03 16:37:55 +0300 From: "Toomas Aas" Organization: Tartu City Government To: Dan Nelson , questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2003 16:37:52 +0300 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Priority: normal In-reply-to: <20030425203301.GU45035@dan.emsphone.com> References: <3EA9925E.30201@potentialtech.com> Subject: Re: Time Problem in 5.0 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2003 13:38:31 -0000 > ntpdate has two nice features: > > 1 - It runs in under a second. This is useful during the startup > sequence, so you know all of your daemons come up with the right > time. "ntpd -q" took 3 and 5 1/2 minutes to return my prompt on > tests on two different machines. Sounds like you might search the ntp.conf manpage for 'iburst'. -- Toomas Aas | toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee | http://www.raad.tartu.ee/~toomas/ * Two things I hate: People that can't count.