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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!lucy.swin.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.syd.connect.com.au!phaedrus.kralizec.net.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!grumpy.fl.net.au!news.webspan.net!newsfeeds.sol.net!newspump.sol.net!howland.erols.net!surfnet.nl!newsfeed.sunet.se!news01.sunet.se!sunic!mn6.swip.net!seunet!news2.swip.net!nike.volvo.se!cyklop.volvo.se!peter From: peter@cyklop.volvo.se (peter hakanson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: xntp/ntpdate woes Date: 21 Jan 1997 17:28:54 GMT Organization: Volvo Corp. Lines: 47 Message-ID: <5c2ucm$pci@nike.volvo.se> References: <32E48414.337@postmodern.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: cyklop.volvo.se X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:5686 You got to be close (< 15 minutes) from correct utp time for ntpd to sync. And kernel should run in UTC, your timezone setting must reflect correct zone. Here is a snippet of one typical /etc/ntp.conf: peer ntp1.volvo.se peer gatekeeper.volvo.se there is more, but this will work. Regards 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. : 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 -- -- <peter.devnull@cyklop.volvo.se> (remove ".devnull" before use!) Peter Hakanson VolvoData Dep 2580 phone +46 31 66 74 27