From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 10 17:42:57 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0521A16A4CE for ; Fri, 10 Sep 2004 17:42:56 +0000 (GMT) Received: from allrounder.lame.at (mail.softlink.at [195.58.166.252]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8481543D53 for ; Fri, 10 Sep 2004 17:42:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from haimat@lame.at) Received: from itchy (home.lame.at [80.78.254.138]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-MD5 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by allrounder.lame.at (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E3EB2FE87 for ; Fri, 10 Sep 2004 19:42:41 +0200 (CEST) From: "Matthias F. Brandstetter" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 19:42:51 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200409101942.51769.haimat@lame.at> Subject: how to update system time? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 17:42:58 -0000 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 I set my local time via /stand/sysinstall to my local timezone (Austria), CEST. With rdate, I get the right date and time, but as said my system date and time is not updated, it stays around two hours behind... Sorry if this is maybe a dumb question, but I really have no idea left where the problem could be (because this works wonderful on the other FreeBSD test machine). Greetings and TIA, Matthias -- But let me tell you, the slim lazy Homer you knew is dead. Now I'm a big fat dynamo. -- Homer Simpson King-Size Homer