Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 23:21:55 +0530 From: Shantanoo <shantanoo@gmail.com> To: "Matthias F. Brandstetter" <haimat@lame.at> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how to update system time? Message-ID: <2301747004091010514a3271d@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200409101942.51769.haimat@lame.at> References: <200409101942.51769.haimat@lame.at>
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On Fri, 10 Sep 2004 19:42:51 +0200, Matthias F. Brandstetter <haimat@lame.at> wrote: > Hi all, > > first: hello to all FreeBSD users out there ;) > After using Linux for several years, I want to try out FreeBSD for some of > my servers now. I am coming from Gentoo Linux, so I am somewhat "used" to > the ports system... > > Ok, now to my first question: I am setting up my 2nd FreeBSD box now. On my > first test machine I installed "rdate" (instead of "ntpdate"); I can > update system time w/o problems there. > > But when I try to update system time on the 2nd box now, I get no errors > from rdate, but my time and date is not updated afterwards. When I try it > with ntpdate (with same time server), I get the following error: > > 6 Sep 15:22:01 ntpdate[330]: no server suitable for synchronization found Is the computer properly networked? can it ping yahoo.com? the computer is not able to reach the ntp server. try pool.ntp.org Regards, Shantanoo
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