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Date:      Thu, 9 Mar 2000 20:22:41 -0500
From:      "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
To:        Bhishan Hemrajani <bhishan@cytosine.dhs.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: syslogd/ntpdate
Message-ID:  <20000309202241.B80084@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
In-Reply-To: <200003090050.QAA55826@cytosine.dhs.org>; from bhishan@cytosine.dhs.org on Wed, Mar 08, 2000 at 04:50:38PM -0800
References:  <200003090050.QAA55826@cytosine.dhs.org>

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On Wed, Mar 08, 2000 at 04:50:38PM -0800, Bhishan Hemrajani wrote:
> My clock on my machine is really messed up, and xntpd doesn't
> align it properly.

How are you trying to configure xntpd(8)? It should work.

> So, I have to run ntpdate every 10seconds.

Yuck.

> I don't mind this, except that ntpdate fills up my log files
> completely. I have ntpdate starting w/the -s option, so it
> sends the message to syslog instead of all the terminals
> logged in.
> 
> Is there any way to have ntpdate not tell anything about
> what it is doing? It doesn't have an option in the manpage
> for it.
> 
> And, I tried the manpage for syslogd, to see if I could have
> syslogd ignore messages from ntpdate. But, no luck.

Huh? From syslog.conf(5),


     The facility describes the part of the system generating the message, and
     is one of the following keywords: auth, authpriv, cron, daemon, ftp,
     kern, lpr, mail, mark, news, ntp, syslog, user, uucp and local0 through
     local7.                      ^^^
-- 
Crist J. Clark                           cjclark@home.com


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