Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2001 07:51:28 -0600 From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: "P. U. (Uli) Kruppa" <root@pukruppa.de> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ntpd / time server confusion Message-ID: <15351.48352.320492.839500@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <20905573@toto.iv>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
P. U. (Uli) Kruppa <root@pukruppa.de> types: > Hi! > > Last night I thought it would be a nice idea to fetch the > exact time from some internet time server. > As far as I can see, I have ntpdate enabled in rc.conf and > I have produced some kind of /etc/ntp.conf but doing > # ntpdate I keep receiving messages like this: > > 18 Nov 10:39:42 ntpdate[56133]: no servers can be used, > exiting > > In Google I found some confusing pages about time servers > being down because of security risks. > > So my question is: > Does this work at all and if yes > which lines should be put into my rc.conf and my ntp.conf? ntp.conf isn't used by ntpdate, it's used by ntpd. You need to specify the servers for ntpdate in ntpdate_flags in rc.conf. If your system is up and connected full time, you probably want to use ntpd instead of ntpdate. See the respective man pages for more information. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Q: How do you make the gods laugh? A: Tell them your plans. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?15351.48352.320492.839500>