Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 14:18:54 +0000 (GMT) From: Jonathon McKitrick <jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mysterious xntpd Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9911111417340.47036-100000@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> In-Reply-To: <19991110174318.A35097@dan.emsphone.com>
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So what makes sense for keeping time on a laptop with a PP connection once a day? I tried setting it once, and ended up with GMT (Zulu Time) and it took me a while to get the zone right. Now i just have a little script called jtime that i run whenever that calles ntpdate. Does this make sense? On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, Dan Nelson wrote: >In the last episode (Nov 10), Jonathon McKitrick said: >> I'm trying to sync my clock with the timeservers out there, so i'm >> using ntpdate. But i tried xntpd first, and now it seems like it is >> running every few minutes. I noticed this when my ppp connection is >> down, it complains that it can't find any route to host. I don't see >> a cron entry, but i can't seem to find the process that starts it. >> Where else should i look? /var/run shows it's pid, that's all i >> know. > >xntpd is a daemon; therefore when you run it it backgrounds itself and >constantly updates the time in the background. If you want to stop it, >kill the process. > >-- > Dan Nelson > dnelson@emsphone.com > -jonathon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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