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From: mark@troma.rv.tis.com (Mark Sienkiewicz)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: xntp/ntpdate woes
Date: 21 Jan 1997 15:31:19 -0500
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Message-ID: <5c392n$d4g@troma.rv.tis.com>
References: <32E48414.337@postmodern.com>
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In article <32E48414.337@postmodern.com>,
Michael C. Berch <mcb@postmodern.com> wrote:
>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.
In the man page on my machine, it says the server line should
look like:
server host_address [ key # ] [ version # ] [ prefer ] [
mode # ]
You said "names" but it doesn't appear to accept a name there. I
have it working with this file:
% cat /etc/ntp.conf
server 10.0.1.117
driftfile /etc/ntp.drift
%
(Don't try to use that IP number -- it is not routable from the
internet.)
>This is a BSDI 2.0 system, 486DX66, 32MB, on an ethernet connected to
>our ISP via 56K frame relay.
I have BSD/OS 2.1 but it should be similar enough. The only problem
I noticed with xntpd is that it is not compiled with the LOCAL_CLOCK
clock driver, but that is only a problem under unusual circumstances.