* David Walker <[email protected]> [2009-10-29 16:02]: > Bonjour. > > I have one of those little box peecees - no battery = no clock. > Regardless, I wish to use OpenNTPD to organize time. > My ISP kindly provides an ntp server. > > # uname -rsv > OpenBSD 4.6 GENERIC#58 > > During boot I see this: > starting network > add net default: gateway 0.0.0.1 > starting system logger > starting initial daemons: ntpd. > > This sits there for maybe ten seconds and continues booting. > Finally I see this (example): > Mon Jul 13 10:23:29 CST 2009 > OpenBSD/i386 (myname.my.domain) (tty00) > login: > > The clock is using the time from the previous shutdown/reboot (and > originally from the "timestamp" on the 4.6 install files). > The only change appears to be from elapsed "uptime".
it didn't receive a reply from any of your configured ntp servers in those 10 seconds and gave up on the initial stepping. what should ntpd do? sit there forever? -- Henning Brauer, [email protected], [email protected] BS Web Services, http://bsws.de Full-Service ISP - Secure Hosting, Mail and DNS Services Dedicated Servers, Rootservers, Application Hosting
