From owner-freebsd-current Tue Mar 11 18:22:56 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 72FAB37B401 for ; Tue, 11 Mar 2003 18:22:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailout02.sul.t-online.com (mailout02.sul.t-online.com [194.25.134.17]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2052843FBD for ; Tue, 11 Mar 2003 18:22:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhs@berklix.com) Received: from fwd01.sul.t-online.de by mailout02.sul.t-online.com with smtp id 18svt2-0001Ym-02; Wed, 12 Mar 2003 03:22:32 +0100 Received: from jhs.muc.de (520006753247-0001@[217.80.227.24]) by fmrl01.sul.t-online.com with esmtp id 18svsx-1MrEkCC; Wed, 12 Mar 2003 03:22:27 +0100 Received: from flip.jhs.private (flip.jhs.private [192.168.91.24]) by jhs.muc.de (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h2C2MWR21355; Wed, 12 Mar 2003 03:22:32 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from jhs@berklix.com) Received: from flip.jhs.private (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by flip.jhs.private (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h2C2MC370563; Wed, 12 Mar 2003 03:22:17 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from jhs@flip.jhs.private) Message-Id: <200303120222.h2C2MC370563@flip.jhs.private> To: James Satterfield Cc: "Andrew P. Lentvorski, Jr." , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Time drift. In-Reply-To: Message from James Satterfield of "Tue, 11 Mar 2003 16:38:54 PST." <20030311163854.152ceb4c.james@uberduper.com> Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 03:22:12 +0100 From: "Julian H. Stacey" X-Sender: 520006753247-0001@t-dialin.net Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG James Satterfield wrote: > I guess I've just never paid that much attention to the clock. I think it's t > ime for me to get a real clock and setup an NTP server. > Thanks. > James. One of my gate boxes drifts about 11.5 sec a day. I use rdist to keep all my hosts at each site in sync - vital for NFS makes ! & I use cron &/or ppp dial up, to trigger one shot calls EG "/usr/sbin/ntpdate ntp1.t-online.de" to sync the gate that acts as rdist server. I havent set up an NTP server, I'm happy being an NTP client. I still havent protected myself from the ramifications of time lurches on my local net, while NFS compiling. I seem to recall one of rdist & ntp offered sliding updates, & the other only offered lurching updates. Maybe I'm wrong, hope so, must get back to it some time. Julian Stacey jhs @ berklix.com A few mails lost, please resend if awaiting a reply. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message