From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 5 17:27:22 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id RAA07457 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 5 Nov 1996 17:27:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from nexgen.n4hhe.ampr.org (max12-98.HiWAAY.net [206.104.16.98]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA07436 for ; Tue, 5 Nov 1996 17:27:14 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dkelly@localhost) by nexgen.n4hhe.ampr.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id TAA21498; Tue, 5 Nov 1996 19:26:51 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 0.5-alpha [p0] on FreeBSD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Tue, 05 Nov 1996 19:21:12 -0600 (CST) Organization: Amateur Radio N4HHE, Madison, AL. From: David Kelly To: Doug White Subject: Re: Time Server Setup - xntpd Cc: questions@freebsd.com, George Yobst Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On 18:32:46 Doug White wrote: >Here is my /etc/ntp.conf: [snip] May I also suggest saving your drift file? Add the following to /etc/ntp.config: driftfile /etc/ntp.drift >Then edit the 'xntpdflags' directive in /etc/sysconfig to read: > >xntpdflags="-c /etc/ntp.conf" That's actually xntpd's default values. Would empty quotes work here? >Reboot and you're off and rolling. Ouch! No need to reboot. Just start xntpd (as root) by hand. A simple "xntpd" does it. It backgrounds itself. I kill the old one and launch a new one every time I dial in via PPP. Leave the old one running in order for it to continually apply the drift corrections. Kill it when I dial in because I get a different IP address each time and the old xntpd is still bind'ed via my prior IP address. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@tomcat1.tbe.com (wk), dkelly@hiwaay.net (hm) ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system.