Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 17:28:52 +0000 (GMT) From: Jonathon McKitrick <jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mysterious xntpd Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9911111727010.48423-100000@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> In-Reply-To: <19991111122322.03693@mojave.sitaranetworks.com>
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I have a one-line script that i call from root when i am connected. To run this command or ntpdate directly, all i need to do is include that line in ppp.linkup? I thought ppp.linkup was commands specific to ppp? How do i distinguish calls to an external command? On Thu, 11 Nov 1999, Greg Lehey wrote: >On Thursday, 11 November 1999 at 11:03:38 -0600, Dan Nelson wrote: >> In the last episode (Nov 11), Jonathon McKitrick said: >>> So what makes sense for keeping time on a laptop with a PP connection >>> once a day? >> >> xntpd :) It can maintain correct time even if it can only contact its >> time source for a couple hours each day. I believe it needs about 1/2 >> hour of continuous connect time to synch after a disconnect. > >Fine, but that's a lot longer than ntpdate needs. In addition, it >will keep trying to establish contact, which can be undesirable. >ntpdate is the obvious choice for a dialup connection; you can put it >in the linkup script and it will set the date even before you know >you're connected. > >>> 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? >> >> xntpd and ntpdate both set the time in the same way. You must have >> had some other timezone problem. > >Right, this issue has nothing to do with ntp. Check your >/etc/localtime file. It should be a copy of your local time zone file >in the /usr/share/zoneinfo hierarchy. > >Greg >-- >When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. >For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html >Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key >See complete headers for address and phone numbers > -jonathon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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