From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 15 20:24:51 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fedde.littleton.co.us (cfedde.dsl.frii.net [216.17.139.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 578E737B416 for ; Mon, 15 Apr 2002 20:24:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fedde.littleton.co.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fedde.littleton.co.us (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g3G3OmEs088345; Mon, 15 Apr 2002 21:24:48 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <200204160324.g3G3OmEs088345@fedde.littleton.co.us> To: Peter Leftwich Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: man ntpd In-Reply-To: <20020415174044.E2843-100000@66-75-1-142.san.rr.com> From: Chris Fedde Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 21:24:48 -0600 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 On Mon, 15 Apr 2002 17:41:25 -0700 (PDT) Peter Leftwich wrote: +------------------ | Must I have an /etc/ntp.conf if I enable xntpd (ntpd) in /etc/rc.conf ? +------------------ Yup. The time server needs to know how to synch it's clock. A minimum config uses one server directive. A more complete server would choose two or more. Your ISP probably has a couple time servers you can "chime" to. If not you might select a couple stratum 2 servers from the list at http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ntp/clock2.htm -- Chris Fedde To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message