Date: Sun, 7 Jul 2024 10:16:34 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> To: bob prohaska <fbsd@www.zefox.net> Cc: "freebsd-arm@freebsd.org" <freebsd-arm@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: ntpd vs ntpdate with no hardware clock Message-ID: <CANCZdfpPQ3jpHTHifCRBAwd3Tp85EHFLLVFyd7CWVzg-wBqk%2Bg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <Zoq7xD2BRT6YyF6l@www.zefox.net> References: <Zoq7xD2BRT6YyF6l@www.zefox.net>
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--0000000000008585a9061caa9f60 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Try -q on ntpd. It will step system time, but only once. FreeBSD will set the time to the last modification of /. At least for UFS... I'm guessing this is why it was within a minute.... and is FreeBSD's psuedo equivalent. Warner. On Sun, Jul 7, 2024, 10:01=E2=80=AFAM bob prohaska <fbsd@www.zefox.net> wro= te: > Just tried using ntpd with a fresh 14.1 installation on a Pi4. > Near as I can tell, ntpd reports a failure due to the clock > being off by too much, even if it's set manually to within > a minute before reboot. Probably that's caused by the lack > of a hardware clock on the Pi4, linux has a bodge called > fake-hwclock. Is there an equivalent workaround for FreeBSD? > > In the meantime ntpdate seems to work, though deprecated > > Thanks for reading, > > bob prohaska > > > --0000000000008585a9061caa9f60 Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <div dir=3D"auto">Try -q on ntpd. It will step system time, but only once.<= div dir=3D"auto"><br></div><div dir=3D"auto">FreeBSD will set the time to t= he last modification of /. At least for UFS... I'm guessing this is why= it was within a minute.... and is FreeBSD's psuedo equivalent.=C2=A0</= div><div dir=3D"auto"><br></div><div dir=3D"auto">Warner.</div></div><br><d= iv class=3D"gmail_quote"><div dir=3D"ltr" class=3D"gmail_attr">On Sun, Jul = 7, 2024, 10:01=E2=80=AFAM bob prohaska <<a href=3D"mailto:fbsd@www.zefox= .net">fbsd@www.zefox.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class=3D"gmail= _quote" style=3D"margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:= 1ex">Just tried using ntpd with a fresh 14.1 installation on a Pi4.<br> Near as I can tell, ntpd reports a failure due to the clock<br> being off by too much, even if it's set manually to within<br> a minute before reboot. Probably that's caused by the lack<br> of a hardware clock on the Pi4, linux has a bodge called<br> fake-hwclock. Is there an equivalent workaround for FreeBSD?<br> <br> In the meantime ntpdate seems to work, though deprecated<br> <br> Thanks for reading,<br> <br> bob prohaska<br> <br> <br> </blockquote></div> --0000000000008585a9061caa9f60--
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