Date: Sun, 07 May 2006 23:17:28 -0500 From: Andrew <andrew.chace@gmail.com> To: jekillen <jekillen@prodigy.net> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: resetting clock after power outage Message-ID: <1147061848.3352.58.camel@LatitudeFC5.network> In-Reply-To: <8e6875284479b938892d255182f50ac8@prodigy.net> References: <8e6875284479b938892d255182f50ac8@prodigy.net>
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On Sun, 2006-05-07 at 21:10 -0700, jekillen wrote: > Hello; > I have a problem that I can't, so far find and answer to. > How do you reset the system clock after a power outage > has caused it to loose time? > I have a machine that went down a month or so ago and > since have noticed that the time stamp on such things > as mail to the root account, and log entries is way behind > what it should be. > The system is FreeBSD v6.0 and does not have Xwindows > installed on it. So I need to find out how to reset the clock > from the command line. I thought I could do it with sysinstall > but I don't see an option for actually setting the time, > only the time zone. > I presume that it is important, now, as I am running named > on it as a master server and I believe it is important that > it be in sync with the slave server running on another > machine that was off at the time of the outage. > I thought maybe the bios had something to do with it > but haven't seen a way to reset the time in the bios > either. > Thanks for assistance in advance; > JK Hello, See 'man ntpdate(8)'. Pretty sure that it's included with a basic installation; i.e. it's part of the system, not a port. -Andrew
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