From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 5 16:30:05 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id QAA16775 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 5 Jun 1996 16:30:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from blanco.sadeya.cesca.es (blanco.sadeya.cesca.es [192.94.163.146]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA16747 for ; Wed, 5 Jun 1996 16:29:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cyan ([193.148.6.29]) by blanco.sadeya.cesca.es (8.6.11/8.7.0) with SMTP id BAA09454; Thu, 6 Jun 1996 01:28:36 +0200 Message-ID: <31B633E8.1C81@sadeya.cesca.es> Date: Thu, 06 Jun 1996 01:27:04 +0000 From: Carlos Amengual Organization: SADEYA X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.01 (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jim Dennis CC: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: xntpd?? where is /etc/ntp.conf?? References: <201006050046.RAA00519@mistery.mcafee.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Jim Dennis wrote: > > How do I check to insure that xntpd is operating correctly? > (actually I know it wasn't -- but why can't I find it using > 'ps aux | grep xn')? > > Why isn't there a /etc/ntp.conf (as the man page suggests > there would be)? > > How do I get this configured correctly? How do I test that > it's working? > > Jim Dennis, > System Administrator, > McAfee Associates Jim, Create the /etc/ntp.conf with content like this: ------- start of /etc/ntp.conf -------- server 10.10.10.10 statsdir /var/log/ statistics loopstats ------- end of /etc/ntp.conf -------- Obviously, the "10.10.10.10" host is fictitious; I use one in Spain and it would not be useful to you. Use the NTP server of your choice. Also, I remember that under 2.0.5 I had to explicitly specify the file /etc/ntp.conf as a command line option, though I haven't checked this with 2.1 Anyone interested on computer timekeeping can find interesting NTP stuff at the URL http://glen-ellyn.rice.iit.edu/~clocks/clocks/ntp/ntp.html. I hope this helps. P.D. Looking at the date of your mail, I realize that you *really* need NTP ;)