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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!enews.sgi.com!news.sgi.com!swrinde!howland.erols.net!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in3.uu.net!194.177.160.10!insnet.net!news.insnet.net!news.wisper.net!gnome.gw.cerbernet.co.uk From: Chris Stenton <jacs@gnome.co.uk> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Synchronizing my FreeBSD machine to clock servers. Date: Thu, 05 Dec 1996 10:49:35 +0000 Organization: Gnome Computers Limited Lines: 29 Message-ID: <32A6A8BE.41C67EA6@gnome.co.uk> References: <stanbE1tEtC.1EE@netcom.com> <581rqn$56v@jupiter.dnai.com> <stanbE1w14A.2A8@netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: norbert.cerbernet.co.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.6.1-RELEASE i386) To: Stan Brown <stanb@netcom.com> Stan Brown wrote: > > Karl Wiebe <karl@dnai.com> writes: > > >stanb@netcom.com (Stan Brown) wrote: > >> 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 > > Turns ou that there is. It's called ntpdate. It does have a man page, > and seems to do what I wanted. > > I do have a furthere question though. Under Linux you need to run a > seperate program to set the CMOS clock. Can anyone tell me if this is > necessary under FreeeBSD, and if so what the program is called. > > -- The Kernel updates it for you from release 2.0 onwards of FreeBSD. Chris ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr Chris Stenton chris@gnome.co.uk Gnome Computers Ltd Tel/Fax: 44 (0)1480 406164 25A Huntingdon St, St Neots, Cambridgeshire, PE19 1BG -------------------------------------------------------------------------------