From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 19 5: 9:58 2002 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 B2A0F37B401 for ; Mon, 19 Aug 2002 05:09:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.thundernet.cz (mail.thundernet.cz [62.77.87.114]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8CDFD43E75 for ; Mon, 19 Aug 2002 05:09:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from neuhauser@bellavista.cz) Received: (qmail 17026 invoked from network); 19 Aug 2002 12:09:42 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO freepuppy.bellavista.cz) (62.168.44.50) by mail.thundernet.cz with SMTP; 19 Aug 2002 12:09:42 -0000 Received: by freepuppy.bellavista.cz (Postfix, from userid 1001) id CB49962; Mon, 19 Aug 2002 14:09:40 +0200 (CEST) Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 14:09:40 +0200 From: Roman Neuhauser To: "Michael A. Smith" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: running my own local time server Message-ID: <20020819120940.GW389@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> Mail-Followup-To: "Michael A. Smith" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <3D60DA59.1020302@code-fu.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3D60DA59.1020302@code-fu.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 07:45:29 -0400 > From: "Michael A. Smith" > To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: running my own local time server > > There was a good thread a few days ago about using ntpd/ntpdate to sync > a machine to a public timeserver. I've got a number of machines and > don't want to flood public timeservers with requests (even Stratum 2 > servers). I'd rather sync just ONE machine and sync all my other > machines to it. > > Checking /etc/defaults/rc.conf and "man timed", I've found out a little > about timed. My question is this: Are timed and ntpd compatible? Can I > use ntpd (which I know how to use and like) to sync to a machine running > timed? If not, can I run a NTP server? (maybe there's a port I don't > know about) > > A quick look through the man pages makes me think that this will not > work, that timed and ntpd are different beasts. set one machine to sync from outside stratum 2 servers, and the rest of your network to sync from that machine. you'll be running ntpd everywhere. see /usr/share/doc/ntp/ and http://www.ntp.org/ -- FreeBSD 4.6-STABLE 2:08PM up 10 days, 2:02, 20 users, load averages: 0.07, 0.03, 0.01 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message