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From: kardel@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Frank Kardel)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: ntp
Date: Mon, 4 Apr 1994 13:34:00 GMT
Organization: CSD., University of Erlangen
Message-ID: <2np508Eko4@uni-erlangen.de>
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Timothy J Kniveton <tim+@CMU.EDU> writes:

>i am trying to get ntp working so my computer will sync to a
>timeserver.  before, i had xntp installed, but it looks like it's
>included with 1.1B ... if i set the flag in netstart, it says it's
>starting the daemon at startup time, but it doesn't.
>could someone tell me everything i need to do to get this working?  thanks.

We have xntp3.3p working fine on NetBSD. Don't drop back to 
ntp3.4 if you happen to try that. ntp3.4 claims version 1 of
the protocol and this software is not supportet. Only version
3 of the NTP implementation is supported. The software can be obtained
via anon ftp from:
	louie.udel.edu:/pub/ntp/xntp3.3p.tar.Z

By looking at /etc/rc from freebsd things look plausible.
You should check /var/log/meesages for messages from xntpd. Further you
need to check /etc/ntp.conf for a valid configuration.

Try to start the daemon without reboot - if that works you might go on
with auto start at reboot.

Hope this gets you started.

Frank Kardel (time@informatik.uni-erlangen.de)