From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 17 21:54:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [206.29.169.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8AED437B408 for ; Mon, 17 Sep 2001 21:54:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tedm.placo.com (nat-rtr.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [206.29.168.154]) by mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id f8I4sC621867; Mon, 17 Sep 2001 21:54:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" To: "Brian Whalen" , Cc: Subject: RE: Setting the time... Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 21:54:12 -0700 Message-ID: <004d01c13ffd$f5713f40$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 In-Reply-To: <20010917140607.V8615-100000@cx175057-a.ocnsd1.sdca.home.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Importance: Normal 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 >-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Brian Whalen >Sent: Monday, September 17, 2001 2:07 PM >To: FJU@Fritzilldo.com >Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG >Subject: Re: Setting the time... > > >I would reboot it to use the bios and get as close as you can. > >Use of ntpdate or ntpd after that is the norm.. > Let me clear somthing up - you should almost always use both ntpdate and ntpd hand-in-hand. xntpd will not synchronize the time at boot if it finds the system time is too wildly off. This is why ntpdate is run once, before ntpd is started. ntpdate forces the system clock to the correct time at boot and ntpd keeps it there. Also when the system shuts down the adjkerntz program will reset the BIOS clock to the current time. Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message