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On Tue, 8 Sep 2015 07:17:54 -0700
Jesse Gooch wrote:

> If you don't mind installing ports/packages I recommend net/openntpd
> (http://www.openntpd.org/) from the OpenBSD guys rather than base
> ntpd. Much simpler. The configuration file has only a few directives.

I don't see how it could be any simpler than just turning-on the base
system daemon.