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Subject: Re: How to confirm/deny ntp is working?
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02.08.2010 23:23, Ed Flecko wrote:

> 1.) Do I need to manually create the "driftfile" (/var/db/ntpd.drift)?

Nope.

> 2.) Do I need to manually create the logfile (/var/log/ntp.log)?

Nope.

> 3.) How do you confirm that FreeeBSD is, in fact, keeping time?

pgrep ntp
ntpq -p
echo daily_status_ntpd_enable=yes > /etc/periodic.conf

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