From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Mar 24 9:26:23 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from threespace.com (server44.aitcom.net [208.234.0.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13A3237B41B for ; Sun, 24 Mar 2002 09:26:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from vwinxp.threespace.com (ip68-11-176-217.br.no.cox.net [68.11.176.217]) by threespace.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA15879 for ; Sun, 24 Mar 2002 12:32:04 -0500 Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20020324112056.0199b938@threespace.com> X-Sender: tech@threespace.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2002 11:25:01 -0600 To: FreeBSD Chat From: Chip Morton Subject: Re: time servers nearish Vancouver In-Reply-To: <20020323041656.A02023F29@bast.unixathome.org> References: <20020322200120.D17681@rain.macguire.net> <20020323033242.31E383F29@bast.unixathome.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 10:17 PM 3/22/2002, Dan Langille wrote: >I'm using: > >$ more /etc/ntp.conf >server ntp.cpsc.ucalgary.ca >server time.chu.nrc.ca >server time.nrc.ca >server timelord.uregina.ca Why does this stuff not work for me? I tried running ntpd on a system I have with a terrible clock, and I still found that the time was off by up to six minutes in some instances. I was thinking I'd get better results by running ntpdate as a cron job. What's the secret? I've been scouring man pages and docs for days now to no avail. And how often does this ntp.conf actually update the time? << Chip Morton >> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message