From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 7 5:35:13 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ufsc.connectone.com.br (unknown [200.135.0.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2B9414E31 for ; Wed, 7 Apr 1999 05:34:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lenzi@k1.com.br) Received: from gate1.ilhadamagia.com.br (escritorio.connectone [192.168.100.2]) by ufsc.connectone.com.br (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA25222; Wed, 7 Apr 1999 09:32:48 -0300 (EST) (envelope-from lenzi@k1.com.br) Received: from gate1.ilhadamagia.com.br (gate1.ilhadamagia.com.br [192.168.26.2]) by gate1.ilhadamagia.com.br (8.9.2/8.8.7) with ESMTP id JAA22713; Wed, 7 Apr 1999 09:32:45 -0300 (EST) (envelope-from lenzi@k1.com.br) Date: Wed, 7 Apr 1999 09:32:45 -0300 (EST) From: Sergio de Almeida Lenzi X-Sender: lenzi@gate1.ilhadamagia.com.br To: "Paul D. Schmidt" Cc: pds@uberhacker.org, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: time synchronization In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 5 Apr 1999, Paul D. Schmidt wrote: > Are there any programs for periodic time syncs? AFAIK, ntpdate or > whatever only runs once at boot....and since you don't have to reboot > FreeBSD machines often....:) > create a crontab from root login 0 * * * * /usr/sbin/ntpdate -s -t 5 ntp0.nl.net it will run every hour... or.... install rdate (from packages) and put it on the crontab 0 * * * * /usr/local/sbin/rdate -s some.host.on.your.network of course, some.host.... must have daytime & time available in inetd.conf. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message