Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2000 00:22:03 -0800 From: "Crist J . Clark" <cjclark@reflexnet.net> To: "Dib, Allan L" <Dib.Allan.L@edumail.vic.gov.au> Cc: "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: How to configure NTP on FreeBSD server and Linux clients Message-ID: <20001109002203.Q75251@149.211.6.64.reflexcom.com> In-Reply-To: <AB00AFFA26B4D31183520090276120C77F5945@edu001ms009.edumail.vic.gov.au>; from Dib.Allan.L@edumail.vic.gov.au on Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 04:22:22PM %2B1100 References: <AB00AFFA26B4D31183520090276120C77F5945@edu001ms009.edumail.vic.gov.au>
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On Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 04:22:22PM +1100, Dib, Allan L wrote: > Hi everyone, > Can anyone clue me in on where to find some (detailed) info on installing and > configuring NTP on a FreeBSD 4.1.1 box and several *nix workstations. A search > on the FreeBSD site didn't yeild anything relevant. > > Thanks...... Installing NTP on a FreeBSD is easy since you don't have to. It is part of the base system. An NTP daemon comes standard with many UNIX-type OS flavors (also sometimes called xntpd). As for configuring it, see the ntpd(8) and ntp.conf(5) manpages. If this machine will just be a "client," that is, it will get the time from higher strata servers, an NTP configuration like, # # ntp.conf # server ntp1.server.somewhere.org server ntp2.server.elsewhere.org server ntp3.server.widewhere.org # I don't like the drift file in /etc driftfile /var/ntp/ntp.drift Should be enough. You can then just start the daemon by typing, 'ntpd', at the command line. To have it start on boot add, ntpd_enable="YES" To rc.conf. As for choosing your NTP servers and more on how NTP works, this is a good starting place, http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~ntp/ -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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