Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 14:53:29 +0200 From: "James A Wilde" <james.wilde@tbv.se> To: "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: xntpd setup Message-ID: <000601bfbffe$e5ff85b0$8c0aa8c0@hk.tbv.se>
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Surprisingly few questions on this in the archives. I am setting up a machine to synchronize with an external ntp server (level 2). I don't want to trouble them with too much traffic and assume that once a day would be enough. The machine would then act as ntp server for the company computers. I don't find any way to control how often the machine synchronizes with the external server. How is this kind of behaviour normally set up? I can see the possibility of a cron job at, say, 01:00 every day to contact the external server, storing the pid in some file, killing the job, say 5 minutes later and starting another cron job for internal broadcasting. This job would then get killed at, say, 00:55 the next morning. However this seems unnecessarily complicated - four cron jobs - and I'm sure someone has organized it with greater finesse. Or is it so that xntpd doesn't take up too much bandwidth if left running and in contact with the external server? Suggestions welcome. mvh/regards James To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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