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Date:      Thu, 11 Nov 1999 14:18:54 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Jonathon McKitrick <jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
To:        Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: mysterious xntpd
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9911111417340.47036-100000@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
In-Reply-To: <19991110174318.A35097@dan.emsphone.com>

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So what makes sense for keeping time on a laptop with a PP connection once
a day?  I tried setting it once, and ended up with GMT (Zulu Time) and it
took me a while to get the zone right.  Now i just have a little script
called jtime that i run whenever that calles ntpdate.  Does this make
sense?

 On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, Dan Nelson wrote:

>In the last episode (Nov 10), Jonathon McKitrick said:
>> I'm trying to sync my clock with the timeservers out there, so i'm
>> using ntpdate.  But i tried xntpd first, and now it seems like it is
>> running every few minutes.  I noticed this when my ppp connection is
>> down, it complains that it can't find any route to host.  I don't see
>> a cron entry, but i can't seem to find the process that starts it. 
>> Where else should i look?  /var/run shows it's pid, that's all i
>> know.
>
>xntpd is a daemon; therefore when you run it it backgrounds itself and
>constantly updates the time in the background.  If you want to stop it,
>kill the process.
>
>-- 
>	Dan Nelson
>	dnelson@emsphone.com
>

-jonathon




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