From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 6 8:25:54 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 6 08:25:51 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rmx441-mta.mail.com (rmx441-mta.mail.com [165.251.48.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E6AE37B400 for ; Wed, 6 Dec 2000 08:25:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from web651-mc (web651-mc.mail.com [165.251.48.100]) by rmx441-mta.mail.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id LAA26853; Wed, 6 Dec 2000 11:25:41 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <384520112.976119941188.JavaMail.root@web651-mc> Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 11:25:41 -0500 (EST) From: User Land To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu, danny@ricin.com Subject: re: rc & ntp weirdness Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: mail.com X-Originating-IP: 208.48.124.8 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >> It seemed that rc.firewall wasn't properly sourcing >>/etc/defaults/rc.conf or /etc/rc.conf. >Not surprising. source(1) is a csh'ism and rc.firewall is a sh >script. Try it like, $ sh rc.firewall Ah, that does the trick. Thank you. >> But no time adjustments are ever made, and /etc/ntp.drift >>doesn't get created. >How do you know that ntpd is not doing anything? Over several (about 10 days, actually), there were no time adjustments logged in /var/log/messages, and ntp.drift never got created. I was able to use ntpdc to talk to the local server, but, not knowing what exactly to look for, I'm not sure what to do. I have a FreeBSD 4.1 machine with exactly the same rc.conf directives for ntpd and the same ntp.conf file, and it functions as I expect: time adjustments a couple of times per day. My CPU seems to be clocked correctly, so I don't think I need to add anything to my kernel, but, I'm a bit lost. Thanks for any tips! ______________________________________________ FREE Personalized Email at Mail.com Sign up at http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message