Date: Tue, 5 Nov 1996 21:36:47 +0100 (SNT) From: Peter Olsson <pol@leissner.se> To: questions@freefall.freebsd.org Cc: george@lincc.lincc.lib.or.us Subject: Re: Time Server Setup - xntpd Message-ID: <9611052136.aa10106@lda.leissner.se> In-Reply-To: <199611052006.MAA21074@freefall.freebsd.org> from "owner-questions-digest@freefall.freebsd.org" at Nov 5, 96 12:06:37 pm
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Hello! > myriad of config options for xntpd. Would someone be kind enough to > send me a part of their /etc/sysconfig to show startup switches and > /etc/ntp.conf (if needed) along with any setup wisdom. I think I need xntpdflags="-c /etc/ntp.conf -f /etc/ntp.drift" In /etc/ntp.conf only one line is needed (this could probably be moved to a commandline switch but ntp.conf has become a habit): server xxx /etc/ntp.drift is dynamically created by xntpd after some period of runtime. Runtime messages (startup and calibration) end up in /var/log/messages. Try the ntpq-program for status, I use ntpq with commands peer, associations and readvar to see what's going on. The xxx above is the interesting part, that's your time-feed. There is a web-server somewhere which lists all public NTP-servers in the world, but I don't recall the URL and I only have it at work. Search the web for NTP and you'll probably find it, mail me otherwise and I will look it up. Oh, also, don't forget setting your TZ to a correct value and preferrably as early in the startup-sequence as possible. I have my TZ-setting at the top of /etc/rc and it seems to work fine. Peter Olsson pol@leissner.se
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