From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 1 17:56:31 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3B3916A403 for ; Fri, 1 Dec 2006 17:56:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ciscoaix@yahoo.com) Received: from web90601.mail.mud.yahoo.com (web90601.mail.mud.yahoo.com [216.252.100.183]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E8BC343CA3 for ; Fri, 1 Dec 2006 17:56:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ciscoaix@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 75528 invoked by uid 60001); 1 Dec 2006 17:56:31 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:Cc:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Message-ID; b=3aJ25L72rfBWyvDnbJB55qPiK3Ve5TALsLIhbklvAtO2O6oZIZ27jc7wQOoJ0N1G/HlH23zff+yj6mWYmw6D3X627y88neMEoI1t4KEWC7Q4WS11D0k803biTKF1Lz0mv+cEtoWp1NLNVgm81U0kE6K8WE1fUmz/rhaNVXL+JnU=; X-YMail-OSG: DWZCn6MVM1leWQa316eFkrN57x6xIIgkBsPtx1hw8wSKNtygV.JmDsNiLfJEvoVVDRy4s7ScQBFBOhqFkx4pHzPjDep_Y.wWL8k4bzhbtn6BOF0nMLNGEAGxscgPC2m9l2BHDE1scJKpPfE- Received: from [198.237.17.1] by web90601.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Fri, 01 Dec 2006 09:56:30 PST Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2006 09:56:30 -0800 (PST) From: Kris Anderson To: Chuck Swiger In-Reply-To: <0DED1D65-9C3D-478C-85A7-AEEDB9447C8F@mac.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: <970760.74283.qm@web90601.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NTPD not keeping time X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2006 17:56:31 -0000 --- Chuck Swiger wrote: > On Nov 30, 2006, at 12:55 PM, Kris Anderson wrote: > >> Your clock is off by a little over an hour; while > >> ntpd can correct very large offsets, doing so > takes a long time. > >> Kill ntpd, re-run "ntpdate -b", double-check that > your clock is sane, > >> and then re-start ntpd. > > > Off by an hour? Let's see the date is November > 30th, > > and 12:41pm, that's what Windows says. Meanwhile > > freebsd says - Thu Nov 30 00:22:07 PST 2006. > Wouldn't > > that be...nearly 12 hours? > > I was judging the time-offset by the output of "ntpq > -p". Ah, okay. Thanks. :) > However, if you are dual-booting between FreeBSD and > Windows, you > will also need to consider whether to keep the > CMOS/BIOS clock > running in UTC or in your local timezone; see "man > adjkerntz" for > details. Nope, not dual booting, see below. :| > It's entirely possible that doing a "touch > /etc/wall_cmos_clock" will > solve your issue. The file already exists, I have the timezone set to PST. :) > [ ... ] > >> If you are not providing time sync to a large > subnet, please consider > >> using stratum-2 servers or the NTP pool, ie, > pool.ntp.org, or more > >> specific regional parts, such as > 0.us.pool.ntp.org, > >> 1.us.pool.ntp.org-- > >> this is assuming from your IP that you are > located in the US, > >> otherwise > >> choose the appropriate country code for > where-ever you are. > > > I'll give it a shot and see what happens, I did > just > > that yesterday. Okay, changed my pool since it's > to > > keep this computer's time correct. > > > > Thanks for your help. :) > > You are most welcome. > > -- > -Chuck Darn the system time strayed over night. One thing I failed to mention is that freebsd is running on a virtual machine. The system it is runing on is Windows 2003, the time and all that system are correct. I turned on ntpd because for some strange reason the date and time were still not in keeping with the system time, or so I thought. I'ld have to re-investigate that to be sure. Over the weekend I'll stop the ntpd and see what happens to the time when Monday rolls around. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Music Unlimited Access over 1 million songs. http://music.yahoo.com/unlimited