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From: brian@anorak.coverform.lan (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Synchronizing my FreeBSD machine to clock servers.
Date: 4 Dec 1996 01:20:53 -0000
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In article <stanbE1tEtC.1EE@netcom.com>,
stanb@netcom.com (Stan Brown) writes:
: How is the best way to do this?
:
: 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
: about it. If not I will take a crak at poritng this to FreeBSD.
:
: As always, if there is a betterway to do this I would like to here aout
: it.
You could try ntpdate - it queries one or more xntpd servers (taking their
names as arguments) or you could try timed (a lot easier to configure
if you just want to sync several of your own machines). Both have man
pages and can be started via variables in /etc/sysconfig.
--
Brian <brian%anorak.coverform.lan@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
<http://www.awfulhak.demon.co.uk/>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....
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