From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 12 16:11:27 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA18361 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 12 Nov 1998 16:11:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from papillon.lemis.com (papillon.lemis.com [192.109.197.159]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA18352 for ; Thu, 12 Nov 1998 16:11:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by papillon.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.6.12) with ESMTP id IAA02923; Fri, 13 Nov 1998 08:34:55 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id IAA24225; Fri, 13 Nov 1998 08:35:21 +1030 (CST) Message-ID: <19981113083521.P463@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1998 08:35:21 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Jahanur R Subedar Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: ntpdate (was: [Fwd: Cron /usr/sbin/ntpdate chimer.unt.edu www.mit.edu ftp.cdrom.com >/dev/null]) References: <3649DA43.B0A3FEF@jjsoft.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <3649DA43.B0A3FEF@jjsoft.com>; from Jahanur R Subedar on Wed, Nov 11, 1998 at 12:41:07PM -0600 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wednesday, 11 November 1998 at 12:41:07 -0600, Jahanur R Subedar wrote: > > Hi Greg, > I am hosting website only on this server. > I just had a message sent to me by cron to root. This is how it > looks. >> Subject: Cron /usr/sbin/ntpdate chimer.unt.edu www.mit.edu >> ftp.cdrom.com >/dev/null >> Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 12:00:05 -0600 (CST) >> From: root (Cron Daemon) >> To: root >> >> 11 Nov 12:00:05 ntpdate: can't find host ftp.cdrom.com > > I dont undersrtand whats going on. Is somebody accessing my system or > did somebody set cron to get something from ftp.cdrom.com. cron is just the program that started ntpdate, which is what produced the error message. It appears that you have told ntpdate to get dates from a number of unlikely systems (well, chimer.unt.edu might be OK). Check what you specified for ntp in /etc/rc.conf and compare it with the man page for ntp. Also check out http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ntp/servers.html for a list of valid servers. > Where can I find cron? $ which cron /usr/sbin/cron $ man 8 cron Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message