From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 18 3:52:20 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from moutvdom00.kundenserver.de (moutvdom00.kundenserver.de [195.20.224.149]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC87D37B405 for ; Sun, 18 Nov 2001 03:52:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from [195.20.224.209] (helo=mrvdom02.schlund.de) by moutvdom00.kundenserver.de with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #2) id 165QUi-000267-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 18 Nov 2001 12:52:16 +0100 Received: from pd9017251.dip.t-dialin.net ([217.1.114.81]) by mrvdom02.schlund.de with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #2) id 165QUh-0005Hs-00 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Sun, 18 Nov 2001 12:52:16 +0100 Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2001 10:50:27 +0000 (GMT) From: "P. U. (Uli) Kruppa" X-X-Sender: To: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: ntpd / time server confusion Message-ID: <20011118102741.K639-100000@big> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi! Last night I thought it would be a nice idea to fetch the exact time from some internet time server. As far as I can see, I have ntpdate enabled in rc.conf and I have produced some kind of /etc/ntp.conf but doing # ntpdate I keep receiving messages like this: 18 Nov 10:39:42 ntpdate[56133]: no servers can be used, exiting In Google I found some confusing pages about time servers being down because of security risks. So my question is: Does this work at all and if yes which lines should be put into my rc.conf and my ntp.conf? Thanx for your answers. Uli. ************************************ * P. U. Kruppa - Wuppertal * * Germany * * www.pukruppa.de www.2000d.de * ************************************ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message