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Date:      Tue, 05 Nov 1996 19:21:12 -0600 (CST)
From:      David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net>
To:        Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.com, George Yobst <george@lincc.lincc.lib.or.us>
Subject:   Re: Time Server Setup - xntpd
Message-ID:  <XFMail.961105192650.dkelly@hiwaay.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.94.961105122847.6528N-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>

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On 18:32:46 Doug White wrote:
>Here is my /etc/ntp.conf:
[snip]

May I also suggest saving your drift file? Add the following to
/etc/ntp.config:

driftfile /etc/ntp.drift

>Then edit the 'xntpdflags' directive in /etc/sysconfig to read:
>
>xntpdflags="-c /etc/ntp.conf"

That's actually xntpd's default values. Would empty quotes work
here?

>Reboot and you're off and rolling.

Ouch! No need to reboot. Just start xntpd (as root) by hand.
A simple "xntpd" does it. It backgrounds itself. I kill the old
one and launch a new one every time I dial in via PPP. Leave the
old one running in order for it to continually apply the drift
corrections. Kill it when I dial in because I get a different
IP address each time and the old xntpd is still bind'ed via my
prior IP address.

--
David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@tomcat1.tbe.com (wk), dkelly@hiwaay.net (hm)
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