From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 29 5:48:30 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp0.adl1.internode.on.net (smtp0.adl1.internode.on.net [203.16.214.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C02EE37B41B for ; Mon, 29 Apr 2002 05:48:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from midget.dons.net.au (ppp424.sa.adsl.on.net [150.101.244.167]) by smtp0.adl1.internode.on.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g3TCmMT55446; Mon, 29 Apr 2002 22:18:22 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from localhost (root@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by midget.dons.net.au (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g3TCmA52018089; Mon, 29 Apr 2002 22:18:12 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Subject: Re: Clock adjustment? From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: SNFettig Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.3 Date: 29 Apr 2002 22:18:15 +0930 Message-Id: <1020084497.10959.1.camel@chowder.dons.net.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-5 required=5 X-Spam-Level: (-5) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.6 (www dot roaringpenguin dot com slash mimedefang) 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 On Mon, 2002-04-29 at 21:55, SNFettig wrote: > The way that I have set this up is by following the cheat-sheet from Dan > O'Connor (http://www.mostgraveconcern.com/freebsd/ntp.html)*. Over time I > have made tweaks from other howto areas on the net, but this is pretty much > it: Oops.. I forgot to mention.. I can't really use ntp as the system isn't dialed up very frequently (ie about an hour a day maximum) and I currently use ntpdate to adjust the date at each dialup. The cumulative difference is around 120 seconds. I was recently informed that you can adjust the machdep.i8254_freq sysctl which should do what I want.. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 9A8C 569F 685A D928 5140 AE4B 319B 41F4 5D17 FDD5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message