From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 20 17:17:34 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2074A106567A for ; Mon, 20 Apr 2009 17:17:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from peter@boosten.org) Received: from smtpq2.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net (smtpq2.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net [212.54.42.165]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D27B68FC1B for ; Mon, 20 Apr 2009 17:17:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from peter@boosten.org) Received: from [212.54.42.144] (helo=smtp13.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net) by smtpq2.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1LvwsJ-0002ik-8p; Mon, 20 Apr 2009 19:01:43 +0200 Received: from [84.25.72.219] (helo=ra.egypt.nl) by smtp13.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1LvwsI-0003S7-5m; Mon, 20 Apr 2009 19:01:42 +0200 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (xp.egypt.nl [192.168.13.35]) by ra.egypt.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7374C3983D; Mon, 20 Apr 2009 19:01:30 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <49ECAA69.4010203@boosten.org> Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 19:01:29 +0200 From: Peter Boosten User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (Windows/20090302) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Lisa Casey References: <7AF4EC3FE1B54A2DB854159E1D6D6715@lisac> In-Reply-To: <7AF4EC3FE1B54A2DB854159E1D6D6715@lisac> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-ID: 1LvwsI-0003S7-5m X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-0.186, required 5, autolearn=not spam, BAYES_40 -0.18, SPF_PASS -0.00) X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-From: peter@boosten.org X-Spam-Status: No Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ntp problem X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 17:17:34 -0000 Lisa Casey wrote: > Hi, > > Running FreeBSD 5.3 IN /etc/ntp.conf I have: > > server time.nist.gov prefer > server tock.gpsclock.com > driftfile /etc/ntp.drift > logfile /var/log/ntp.log > > If I run ntpdate from a prompt, I get the following error message: > > # ntpdate > 20 Apr 12:02:08 ntpdate[50109]: no servers can be used, exiting > > But if I type: > > ntpdate time.nist.gov it will update the time. Is there something wrong with my /etc/ntp.conf file? > > Lisa Casey /etc/ntp.conf is for ntpd Peter -- http://www.boosten.org