From owner-freebsd-net Sat Oct 10 14:53:54 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA06773 for freebsd-net-outgoing; Sat, 10 Oct 1998 14:53:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from Homer.Web-Ex.com ([209.54.66.254]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA06768 for ; Sat, 10 Oct 1998 14:53:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jim@web-ex.com) Received: from localhost (jim@localhost) by Homer.Web-Ex.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA14937 for ; Sat, 10 Oct 1998 17:49:51 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jim@web-ex.com) X-Authentication-Warning: Homer.Web-Ex.com: jim owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1998 17:49:51 -0500 (EST) From: Jim Cassata To: FreeBSD Net Subject: xntpd Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Is anyone using this or a better way to keep server clocks in sync? It doesn't seem to do anything, 4 servers all running xntpd with a /etc/ntp.conf (as per the man pages) as follows: server 128.173.14.71 driftfile /etc/ntp.drift and there is a writable driftfile that never gets written to. According to the complete FreeBSD book, the driftfile's presence in the conf file tells xntpd to get the time from the server, and it's absence tells it to get the time from listening to ntp broadcasts. Jim Cassata 516.421.6000 jim@web-ex.com Web Express 20 Broadhollow Road Suite 3011 Melville, NY 11747 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message