Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 16:37:14 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug Silver <dsilver@urchin.com> To: Linh Pham <lplist@closedsrc.org> Cc: MET <met@uberstats.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Setting the Time || Public Time Servers Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0208141635310.20386-100000@danzig.sd.quantified.net> In-Reply-To: <20020814163318.B12793-100000@q.closedsrc.org>
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On Wed, 14 Aug 2002, Linh Pham wrote: > On 2002-08-14, MET scribbled: > > # How would I make my BSD machine get its time from something like a > # public time server so that reports the correct time? > > You can use the ntpdate utility to query and set the system's date. You > can set it to sync your clock upon startup by adding the proper lines to > /etc/rc.conf (check the man page rc.conf(5) for the proper options) or > add it to a crontab. > > You must be root to set the system's clock. > > Also take a look at clockspeed (/usr/ports/sysutils) to obviate the need for running ntpd or ntpdate consistently. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Doug Silver Network Manager Urchin Software Corp. http://www.urchin.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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