Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2010 22:33:16 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Samuel_Mart=EDn_Moro?= <faust64@gmail.com> To: Ed Flecko <edflecko@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to confirm/deny ntp is working? Message-ID: <AANLkTikh4VftJZxMwb9%2BY6xQN%2BsuV99=L3zJrCC=iXDS@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinyo=_Hf27vaqqBUc8523v5Z%2BG5HcPXrG9KsHqG@mail.gmail.com> References: <AANLkTinyo=_Hf27vaqqBUc8523v5Z%2BG5HcPXrG9KsHqG@mail.gmail.com>
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you may want add to your ntpd.conf:
driftfile /your/drift
logfile /your/log
to confirm, you can change your system date, and see wether it comes back to
normal
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On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 10:23 PM, Ed Flecko <edflecko@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi folks,
> I've read several different sources on setting up ntp on FreeBSD (I'm
> using 8.1), and they seem to vary a little, so I'm confused about how
> DO you set this up, and how do you confirm/deny that it's working?
>
> I've modified my /etc/ntp.conf file by commenting out:
>
> #server 0.freebsd.pool.ntp.org iburst maxpoll 9
> #server 1.freebsd.pool.ntp.org iburst maxpoll 9
> #server 2.freebsd.pool.ntp.org iburst maxpoll 9
> #server 3.freebsd.pool.ntp.org iburst maxpoll 9
>
> and changing them to read (I'm in the U.S.):
>
> server 0.US.pool.ntp.org iburst maxpoll 9
> server 1.US.pool.ntp.org iburst maxpoll 9
> server 2.US.pool.ntp.org iburst maxpoll 9
>
> I have confirmed that I can ping these servers.
>
> I've added ntpd_enable="YES" and ntpd_sync_on_start="YES" to
> /etc/rc.conf and rebooted the server.
>
> 1.) Do I need to manually create the "driftfile" (/var/db/ntpd.drift)?
>
> 2.) Do I need to manually create the logfile (/var/log/ntp.log)?
>
> 3.) How do you confirm that FreeeBSD is, in fact, keeping time?
>
> Thank you,
> Ed
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