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Date:      Tue, 03 Aug 2010 06:28:55 +0200
From:      Leslie Jensen <leslie@eskk.nu>
To:        Volodymyr Kostyrko <c.kworr@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: How to confirm/deny ntp is working?
Message-ID:  <4C579B07.90808@eskk.nu>
In-Reply-To: <4C572B3D.4050802@gmail.com>
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On 2010-08-02 22:31, Volodymyr Kostyrko wrote:
> 02.08.2010 23:23, Ed Flecko wrote:
>
>> 1.) Do I need to manually create the "driftfile" (/var/db/ntpd.drift)?
>
> Nope.
>
>> 2.) Do I need to manually create the logfile (/var/log/ntp.log)?
>
> Nope.
>
>> 3.) How do you confirm that FreeeBSD is, in fact, keeping time?
>
> pgrep ntp
> ntpq -p
> echo daily_status_ntpd_enable=yes > /etc/periodic.conf
>

Shouoldn't it be "YES" and >> so that it do not overwrite your present file?

echo daily_status_ntpd_enable="YES" >> /etc/periodic.conf

/Leslie



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