From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 6 18:17:25 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mw4.texas.net (mw4.texas.net [206.127.30.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF54D37B4C5 for ; Mon, 6 Nov 2000 18:17:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost.texas.net (tcnet02-33.austin.texas.net [209.99.40.96]) by mw4.texas.net (2.4/2.4) with ESMTP id UAA20565; Mon, 6 Nov 2000 20:16:55 -0600 (CST) Received: (from dread@localhost) by localhost.texas.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id UAA27558; Mon, 6 Nov 2000 20:16:52 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dread) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20001106151618.A66974@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2000 20:14:01 -0600 (CST) From: Don Read To: j mckitrick Subject: Re: ntp servers? Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Kent Stewart Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 06-Nov-00 j mckitrick wrote: > > I can't seem to figure out why the method I have always used until now > doesn't work. I have a laptop, so it doesn't make sense to run a > time-keeping daemon, does it? I used to just su to root and run ntpdate > every once in a while, with the name of one of the servers on the list. Now > I keep getting the 'no suitable server for syncronization found' or > something similar. Has the behavior of ntpdate changed without me realizing > it? I didn't want to go through the trouble of lots of config files since > my system is not up all the time, and this method had always worked before. > Sometimes hosts go off-line, servers don't serve, a router won't route; unlike web or mail, most admins ignore their time servers. the point: sync to multiple servers, just in-case one is in the weeds. I put ntpdate my ppp.linkup : localhost.root# head ppp.linkup MYADDR: !bg /usr/sbin/sendmail -q !bg /usr/sbin/ntpdate -s ntp.tmc.edu ntp.udel.edu ntp1.tamu.edu localhost.root# tail /var/log/ntp.log Nov 6 17:03:23 <12.5> localhost ntpdate[27351]: step time server 128.175.2.18 offset -0.714099 sec Nov 6 18:48:30 <12.5> localhost ntpdate[27431]: adjust time server 128.175.2.18 offset -0.482409 sec Nov 6 19:08:34 <12.5> localhost ntpdate[27463]: adjust time server 128.175.2.33 offset -0.464349 sec Regards, -- Don Read dread@texas.net There are old sailors, and there are foolish sailors; but damn few old foolish sailors. --------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message