From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 11 06:53:56 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA27397 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 11 Oct 1998 06:53:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from odyssey.apana.org.au (odyssey.apana.org.au [203.11.114.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA27375 for ; Sun, 11 Oct 1998 06:53:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dean@odyssey.apana.org.au) Received: from localhost (dean@localhost) by odyssey.apana.org.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id VAA11287; Sun, 11 Oct 1998 21:49:47 +0800 (WST) (envelope-from dean@odyssey.apana.org.au) Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1998 21:49:47 +0800 (WST) From: Dean Hollister To: Norman C Rice cc: David Kelly , questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Jim Cassata Subject: Re: xntpd In-Reply-To: <19981011092548.A14433@emu.sourcee.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 11 Oct 1998, Norman C Rice wrote: > If you created the drift file, delete it and restart xntpd so it can create > the drift file when it's ready too -- have patience. Apparently, xntpd expects > the drift file to contain valid data if it exists. I found xntpd would not start if the drift file did not exist. So, I just touched it (meant is was 0b length), then started xntpd. No problems thereafter. Regards, d. +-------------------------------------------------------+ | Dean Hollister, | dean@mushka.ml.org | | Perth, Western Australia. | dean@wa.apana.org.au | +-------------------------------------------------------+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message