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Date:      Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:22:07 -0500
From:      Nathan Vidican <nathan@vidican.com>
To:        =?UTF-8?B?0JDQvdGC0L7QvSDQmtC70LXRgdGB?= <antoniok.spb@gmail.com>
Cc:        User Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: ntpdate problem
Message-ID:  <795fc2b81003120622o2162463dv6697e26a86188cbe@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <3f1c29e71003120257h23ecc310w730bbc6396b27a37@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <3f1c29e71003120257h23ecc310w730bbc6396b27a37@mail.gmail.com>

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man ntpdate:

"
     -s      Divert logging output from the standard output (default) to th=
e
             system syslog(3) facility.  This is designed primarily for
conve-
             nience of cron(8) scripts.
"
Change your cron job to

5 * * * * /usr/sbin/ntpdate -s ru.pool.ntp.org

This will suppress the email you're getting. Consequently, this doesn't
solve the problem of not finding a suitable time server, but for that I'd
suggest enabling ntpd. You should do some reading ('man ntpd') or more
specifically, if you don't want to leave ntpd running, read-up on 'ntpd -q'
which mimmicks the behavior of ntpdate but allows you to use multiple ntp
servers.

--=20
Nathan Vidican
nathan@vidican.com

On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 5:57 AM, =D0=90=D0=BD=D1=82=D0=BE=D0=BD =D0=9A=D0=
=BB=D0=B5=D1=81=D1=81 <antoniok.spb@gmail.com> wrote:

> I have the following line in my root cron:
>
> 5 * * * * /usr/sbin/ntpdate ru.pool.ntp.org > /dev/null
>
> That must hourly adjust system time via NTP.
> But I discover that it works from time to time: some days just once, some
> days 5-6 times a day I receive e-mail with text like
>
> 12 Mar 12:05:05 ntpdate[25368]: no server suitable for synchronization
> found
>
>
> But if I log in to server and run
>
> # /usr/sbin/ntpdate ru.pool.ntp.org
>
> everything always works OK: it says
>
> 12 Mar 13:51:57 ntpdate[27256]: adjust time server 80.93.56.210 offset
> -0.616000 sec
>
>
> Maybe NTP server doesn't like when some client (my server) asks it such w=
ay
> - once a hour in same minute - and blocks my queries?
>
> Any suggestions?
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