From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 7 7:52: 8 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from surreal.nl (surreal.nl [212.204.236.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 414E337B404 for ; Sun, 7 Apr 2002 07:52:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from vscan (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by surreal.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9065134D; Sun, 7 Apr 2002 16:52:05 +0200 (CEST) Received: by surreal.nl (Postfix, from userid 1000) id CB76734B; Sun, 7 Apr 2002 16:52:04 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by surreal.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9F53343; Sun, 7 Apr 2002 16:52:04 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sun, 7 Apr 2002 16:52:04 +0200 (CEST) From: Walter Hop To: Jan Grant Cc: Casey Scott , freebsd-questions Subject: Re: ntpd In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20020407165025.G31541-100000@surreal.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Virus-Scanned: by surreal.binity.net (amavis-perl-11-sky2) for Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG casey@nixfusion.com 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 [in reply to Jan Grant , 07/04/02] > ntpd makes its changes gently; if your hardware clock is particularly > poor, you might want to consider running ntpdate after boot, then ntpd. I have a box that drifts a few seconds each day. I've created a simple shell script to synchronize my main ntp server with a known good ntp server on the net: /etc/periodic/daily/606.ntpdate #!/bin/sh echo " " echo "Synchronizing system time:" ntpdate ntp.xs4all.nl -- Walter Hop | +31 6 24290808 | PGP keyid 0x84813998 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message