From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 28 20:25:42 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FE2937B401 for ; Mon, 28 Oct 2002 20:25:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from rutger.owt.com (rutger.owt.com [204.118.6.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D146E43E6E for ; Mon, 28 Oct 2002 20:25:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kstewart@owt.com) Received: from owt.com (owt-207-41-94-232.owt.com [207.41.94.232]) by rutger.owt.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA14285; Mon, 28 Oct 2002 20:25:37 -0800 Message-ID: <3DBE0DC0.8030209@owt.com> Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2002 20:25:36 -0800 From: Kent Stewart User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 X-Accept-Language: en-us, es-mx MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Peter Leftwich Cc: FreeBSD Questions LIST Subject: Re: ntpdate problems in /etc/rc.conf References: <20021028201013.F188-100000@dhcp-407-32.san.rr.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Peter Leftwich wrote: > I thought I had this in my /etc/rc.conf but didn't, so I added the > following lines and rebooted: > > ntpdate_enable="YES" # Run ntpdate to sync time on boot (or NO). > ntpdate_program="/usr/sbin/ntpdate" # path to ntpdate, if you want a different one. > ntpdate_flags="-b clock.isc.org" # Flags to ntpdate (if enabled). > > My clock still says it is 20:11 PM when it is really 19:11 PM right now! > > Am I missing something, or needing to set the CMOS/motherboard clock...? > I thought ntpdate had to be run manually or via a cron job. I have an ntpd running and it changed immediately after 2am. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message