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Date:      Thu, 30 Oct 1997 11:39:29 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        "Roger P. Johnson" <rjohnson@hirshfields.com>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: How do I synchronize FreeBSD time to a Solaris 2.5.1 machine ?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.971030113624.17844O-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <971030162336.280.9f7.31707@aurora.HIRSHFIELDS.9A0C66027901527E>

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On Thu, 30 Oct 1997, Roger P. Johnson wrote:

>      I know this can't be that hard, but how do I set the times on my
> FreeBSD network to that of a master time keeper such as the Solaris box
> I have ?
> 
>     I've read about xntpd, ntpdate on FreeBSD, tried implementing them
> but end up getting messages something like  "no master to synchronize
> with".

You have to set up xntpd on both the FreeBSD and the Solaris box.  If you
have a cisco router nearby I've found that some of them run sync servers
too.  

This is the NTP home page:

http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~ntp/

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major





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