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Date:      Sun, 3 Apr 2005 10:00:11 -0500
From:      "Richard J. Valenta" <RJV@WEBLINKMO.COM>
To:        =?iso-8859-1?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no>, "Dave" <friend@vortex4.net>
Cc:        alpha@freebsd.org
Subject:   RE: Digital Server 3300 hardware clock
Message-ID:  <5EEBE9C3C61D1142994C6B620C51E847110997@depot.weblinkmo.com>

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I don't know if this question is stupid, but I don't know & I'm here to =
learn...  but why shouldn't Kyle be using 5.0-RELEASE?  Because there =
have been other releases, or because of this particular machine?

rjv


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org =
[mailto:owner-freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Dag-Erling =
Sm=F8rgrav
Sent: Sunday, April 03, 2005 9:02 AM
To: Dave
Cc: alpha@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Digital Server 3300 hardware clock

Dave <friend@vortex4.net> writes:
> On Sat, Apr 02, 2005 at 11:49:54AM -0600, Kyle S. Allender wrote:
> > I'm having a problem with FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE on a Digital Server =
3300 (or
> > at least I think it's a 3300).  I converted this from an NT 4 server =
machine
> > almost 3 years ago and it's been running fine under 4.x/5.x for a =
very long
> > time.

You shouldn't be running 5.0-RELEASE.

> > However, one issue I've continually had with this machine is that =
the
> > hardware clock is off by almost 2 hours.  Ntpd can't keep the =
correct time
> > because the hardware clock is too far off.
> If you ntpdate at startup, your system clock will be set to the date =
you get=20
> via ntp regardless of skew.  Put the following in /etc/rc.conf:
>
> ntp_enable=3D"YES"
> ntp_flags=3D"-b ntp.server.here"
> ntpd_enable=3D"YES"
>
> That should get you set up :>

no.  you want

ntpdate_enable=3D"YES"
ntpd_enable=3D"YES"

both ntpdate and ntpd use the servers listed in /etc/ntp.conf, which
should contain something like

server europe.pool.ntp.org
server europe.pool.ntp.org
server europe.pool.ntp.org

round-robin DNS will take care of the rest.

obviously, if you're not in Europe, you'll want to use a different
pool.

the official list of public ntp servers is at

http://ntp.isc.org/bin/view/Servers/WebHome

if you just want to set the clock once, run

# ntpdate pool.ntp.org pool.ntp.org pool.ntp.org

DES
--=20
Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no
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