From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 31 12:18:02 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EEEDA16A401 for ; Fri, 31 Mar 2006 12:18:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bsd@lordcow.org) Received: from smtp1.uct.ac.za (smtp1.uct.ac.za [137.158.128.183]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76BF843D7C for ; Fri, 31 Mar 2006 12:17:48 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bsd@lordcow.org) Received: from anubis.uct.ac.za ([137.158.128.125]) by smtp1.uct.ac.za with esmtp (Exim 4.30; FreeBSD) id 1FPIZO-000PCu-Lf for stable@freebsd.org; Fri, 31 Mar 2006 14:17:38 +0200 Received: from lhc.phy.uct.ac.za ([137.158.37.93]) by anubis.uct.ac.za with esmtp (Exim 4.60 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1FPIZO-000JQK-DI for stable@freebsd.org; Fri, 31 Mar 2006 14:17:38 +0200 Received: from lordcow by lhc.phy.uct.ac.za with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1FPIZQ-0000UH-23 for stable@freebsd.org; Fri, 31 Mar 2006 14:17:40 +0200 Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 14:17:40 +0200 From: gareth To: stable@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20060331121740.GB1692@lordcow.org> Mail-Followup-To: stable@freebsd.org References: <20060330155928.GA5245@lordcow.org> <144701c65440$07960470$0225a8c0@Wednesday> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <144701c65440$07960470$0225a8c0@Wednesday> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11+cvs20060126 Cc: Subject: Re: ntpdate X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 12:18:03 -0000 On Thu 2006-03-30 (13:22), jdow wrote: > If you have ntpd running, which is the right way to do it anyway, then > ntpdate cannot run unless you tell it to use a different port than the > ntp port because it's already in use. "ntpdate -q -u pool.ntp.org" should > work for you. nope i don't have ntp running (there was a reason which i can't remember), so '-u' doesn't make a difference.