From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 1 3:38:56 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from axl.noc.iafrica.com (axl.noc.iafrica.com [196.31.1.175]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0AE0114E80 for ; Wed, 1 Dec 1999 03:38:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sheldonh@axl.noc.iafrica.com) Received: from sheldonh (helo=axl.noc.iafrica.com) by axl.noc.iafrica.com with local-esmtp (Exim 3.040 #1) id 11t85Z-000EOm-00; Wed, 01 Dec 1999 13:38:25 +0200 From: Sheldon Hearn To: big-sky@altavista.net Cc: "Greg Lehey" , "Freebsd-Questions" Subject: Re: XNTP help In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 01 Dec 1999 05:01:26 CST." <000c01bf3beb$69d3ba20$0201010a@cmr.net> Date: Wed, 01 Dec 1999 13:38:25 +0200 Message-ID: <55351.944048305@axl.noc.iafrica.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 01 Dec 1999 05:01:26 CST, "Mark Einreinhof" wrote: > I was hoping that if I waited a day, that FBSD would sync back up when > it does the daily security emails and such. Unfortunately that didn't > happen. As I write this the Win98 client shows 0459 CST and FBSD shows > 0703 CST. You'll probably find that xntpd is spotting such a large time difference that it thinks the remote server must be wrong. Do this as root: kill `cat /var/run/xntpd.pid` ntpdate tick.uh.edu xntpd -p /var/run/xntpd.pid This assumes that tick.uh.edu is the right time server to use. The ntpdate command will set the time correctly, whereafter xntpd should keep you in syunc. By the way, you should have told us that you were seeing these in /var/log/messages: time error -11886773 is way too large (set clock manually) :-) Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message