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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.syd.connect.com.au!news.bri.connect.com.au!fjholden.OntheNet.com.au!news From: Tony Griffiths <tonyg@OntheNet.com.au> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Synchronizing my FreeBSD machine to clock servers. Date: Thu, 05 Dec 1996 09:30:25 +1000 Organization: On the Net (ISP on the Gold Coast, Australia) Lines: 36 Message-ID: <32A60991.7C74@OntheNet.com.au> References: <stanbE1tEtC.1EE@netcom.com> <581rqn$56v@jupiter.dnai.com> Reply-To: tonyg@OntheNet.com.au NNTP-Posting-Host: swanee.nt.com.au Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (WinNT; I) Karl Wiebe wrote: > > stanb@netcom.com (Stan Brown) wrote: > > In Debain Linux there is a utilty /usr/sbin/netdate. I takes one or > > more servers as arguments, determines what the "Best" time is and sets > > the system kernel time. > > > > If there is sonething like this already done, I would like to know > > man xntpd Actually, ntpdate is the utility to use on 'client" systems, while xntpd is the "server" side of things. On a client system that seems to wander in time, I have in the crontab- 0 0,6,12,18 * * * /usr/sbin/ntpdate 203.10.89.4 > /dev/null 2>&1 (4 times a day is probably overkill but what the heck!) On the time server (203.10.89.4) I run xntpd and synchronise it off other known timer servers. One that I know of in Nth America is "gatekeeper.dec.com" which I think gets it's time signal from the little blips in the sky. The are numerous other that I don't know about! Tony > > --Karl > -- > == Karl Wiebe == karl@dnai.com == > "Order is a form of repetition compulsion" --Freud > "Order is a form of repetition compulsion" --Freud > "Order is a form of repetition compulsion" --Freud