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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!solace!nntp.uio.no!news-feed.inet.tele.dk!arclight.uoregon.edu!enews.sgi.com!news.sgi.com!news1.best.com!nntp1.best.com!usenet From: "Michael C. Berch" <mcb@postmodern.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: xntp/ntpdate woes Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 00:53:44 -0800 Organization: Postmodern Consulting, California USA Lines: 28 Message-ID: <32E48414.337@postmodern.com> Reply-To: mcb@postmodern.com NNTP-Posting-Host: derrida.postmodern.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (Macintosh; I; 68K) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:5589 I've never gotten either xntp or ntpdate to work for me. In the 2.0 /etc/rc file, xntp gets invoked if there's a config file present. I added the names of our ISP's NTP servers to the file, following the syntax in the xntp man entry... no dice. The clock never gets set. So, I gave up on xntp and decided to try ntpdate -- I put this line in /etc/rc.local: /usr/sbin/ntpdate -bs ntp3-sf.tlg.net ntp1-sf.tlg.net ntp2-sf.tlg.net and also invoke ntpdate via cron every hour. All I get, though, is the error message ntpdate: no server suitable for synchronization and, sigh, the clock is never reset. The NTP servers are known to be good (I have an NTP client on my Mac, on the same network, and it gets the time from those servers just fine) and do not require authentication, etc. This is a BSDI 2.0 system, 486DX66, 32MB, on an ethernet connected to our ISP via 56K frame relay. Any ideas? -- Michael C. Berch mcb@postmodern.com