Date: Sat, 13 Nov 1999 21:06:28 -0500 From: Greg Lehey <grog@mojave.sitaranetworks.com> To: Jonathon McKitrick <jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Cc: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mysterious xntpd Message-ID: <19991113210628.48593@mojave.sitaranetworks.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9911111727010.48423-100000@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>; from Jonathon McKitrick on Thu, Nov 11, 1999 at 05:28:52PM %2B0000 References: <19991111122322.03693@mojave.sitaranetworks.com> <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9911111727010.48423-100000@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
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On Thursday, 11 November 1999 at 17:28:52 +0000, Jonathon McKitrick wrote: > On Thu, 11 Nov 1999, Greg Lehey wrote: >> On Thursday, 11 November 1999 at 11:03:38 -0600, Dan Nelson wrote: >>> In the last episode (Nov 11), Jonathon McKitrick said: >>>> So what makes sense for keeping time on a laptop with a PP connection >>>> once a day? >>> >>> xntpd :) It can maintain correct time even if it can only contact its >>> time source for a couple hours each day. I believe it needs about 1/2 >>> hour of continuous connect time to synch after a disconnect. >> >> Fine, but that's a lot longer than ntpdate needs. In addition, it >> will keep trying to establish contact, which can be undesirable. >> ntpdate is the obvious choice for a dialup connection; you can put it >> in the linkup script and it will set the date even before you know >> you're connected. >> >>>> I tried setting it once, and ended up with GMT (Zulu Time) and it >>>> took me a while to get the zone right. Now i just have a little >>>> script called jtime that i run whenever that calles ntpdate. Does >>>> this make sense? >>> >>> xntpd and ntpdate both set the time in the same way. You must have >>> had some other timezone problem. >> >> Right, this issue has nothing to do with ntp. Check your >> /etc/localtime file. It should be a copy of your local time zone file >> in the /usr/share/zoneinfo hierarchy. > > I have a one-line script that i call from root when i am connected. To > run this command or ntpdate directly, all i need to do is include that > line in ppp.linkup? I thought ppp.linkup was commands specific to ppp? > How do i distinguish calls to an external command? You can include shell commands in ppp.linkup by preceding them with an exclamation mark. See /usr/share/examples/ppp/ppp.linkup.sample: #You may want to execute a script after connecting. This script can do # nice things such as kick off "sendmail -q", "popclient my.isp" and # "slurp -d news". It can be passed MYADDR, HISADDR and INTERFACE # as arguments too - useful for informing a DNS of your assigned IP. # # You may also want some sound effects.... # pmdemand: !bg /etc/ppp/ppp.etherup.pmdemand ! sh -c "cat /etc/ppp/linkup.au >/dev/audio" Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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