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Date:      Wed, 1 Dec 1999 05:01:26 -0600
From:      "Mark Einreinhof" <montana1@home.com>
To:        "Greg Lehey" <grog@lemis.com>
Cc:        "Freebsd-Questions" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   RE: XNTP help
Message-ID:  <000c01bf3beb$69d3ba20$0201010a@cmr.net>
In-Reply-To: <19991127195741.13573@mojave.sitaranetworks.com>

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I changed rc.conf to reflect your suggestions. However, the time is
still off. When I reboot it resyncs the time with that server. I asked
permission to use the server right from the beginning. I have a Win98
client running Automachron on the inside lan pointing to the same time
server. The Win98 resyncs every five minutes. The /var/log/messages
from what I understand, just show that xntpd is running.

I was hoping that if I waited a day, that FBSD would sync back up when
it does the daily security emails and such. Unfortunately that didn't
happen. As I write this the Win98 client shows 0459 CST and FBSD shows
0703 CST.

-----Original Message-----
From: Greg Lehey [mailto:grog@mojave.sitaranetworks.com]
Sent: Saturday, November 27, 1999 6:58 PM
To: big-sky@altavista.net; Freebsd-Questions
Subject: Re: XNTP help


On Saturday, 27 November 1999 at 10:28:06 -0600, Mark Einreinhof
wrote:
> OK, I'm getting really frustrated. Reading the man for xntpd, I'm
left
> with the impression that xntpd goes out and gets the time sync every
> now and then. However, on my machine, it keeps losing time. After a
> reboot, the time is fixed, but then slowly moves ahead of the
correct
> time. Currently it is 1hr 14minutes ahead and I just rebooted it
last
> night.
>
> ps -ax displays:
> 257  ??  S<s    0:21.19 xntpd -b -c /etc/ntp.conf -f /etc/ntp.drift
>
> Entry in rc.conf:
> xntpd -b -c /etc/ntp.conf -f /etc/ntp.drift

Why have you done this?  You shouldn't have any commands in rc.conf.
You should have:

xntpd_enable="YES"		# Run xntpd Network Time Protocol (or NO).

The other defaults in /etc/defaults/rc.conf are correct.  But this
shouldn't be your problem.

> Entry ntp.conf:
> server tick.uh.edu

Are you sure that it's accepting your requests?

> Do I need to set up a cron job for this?

No.

> Did I type something wrong?

I can't see anything.  What does your /var/log/messages say on the
subject?

Greg
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