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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!inquo!news.uoregon.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!newsrelay.iastate.edu!ng1.icn.state.ia.us!news.dmacc.cc.ia.us!not-for-mail From: cfr@infoborg.dmacc.cc.ia.us (Charles F. Randall) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: What is the secret to getting ntpdate to automatically fix system time? Date: 19 Jun 1996 15:41:26 -0500 Organization: Des Moines Area Community College Lines: 29 Message-ID: <4q9olm$bhn@infoborg.dmacc.cc.ia.us> References: <4p9vcr$44u@uhura.phoenix.net> <4q9dl9$phm@uhura.phoenix.net> Reply-To: "Charles F. Randall" <crandall@dmacc.cc.ia.us> NNTP-Posting-Host: infoborg.dmacc.cc.ia.us Note: Posted and mailed to Keith Keith Veseleny <vccubed@phoenix.net> wrote: >I have setup ntpdate="apple.com" in my sysconfig file, however, it >doesn't appear to update the machines time and this bios loses almost >10 minutes a day. Do I need to perform a cron job or some other task >to get this to work? It did just what you told it to. Ntpdate is used to set the clock once (read the 'ntpdate' man page for more info). If you want to syncronize your system clock to an NTP server, check out the 'xntpd' (Network Time Protocol daemon) manpage and the 'xntpdflag' option in /etc/sysconfig. For more information on xntpd, see the USENET news group comp.protocols.time.ntp and the NTP Web server at http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~ntp/ FYI, -Randy -- Charles F. Randall E-mail: crandall@dmacc.cc.ia.us UNIX Systems Programmer Voice: (515) 965-7057 Perl Hacker - Powered by FreeBSD! FAX: (515) 965-7305