On Thu, Sep 21, 2000 at 04:38:02PM +0100, James Raftery wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 21, 2000 at 05:12:32PM +0200, Peter van Dijk wrote:
> > But when does xntpd send out requests then? It seems to only do so every
> > once in a while, and if I'm not dialed in at that time, it fails.
>
> I don't know any more accurately than 'periodically'. My system
> clock doesn't run away with itself into oblivion, so I can live without
> a time sync on every dial-up. I imagine it can be made poll more often,
> either with a configuration option or some magic with the xntpdc
> program.
minpoll minpoll
maxpoll maxpoll
These options specify the minimum and maximum polling in-
tervals for NTP messages, in seconds to the power of two.
The default range is 6 (64 s) to 10 (1,024 s). The al-
lowable range is 4 (16 s) to 17 (36.4 h) inclusive.
>From man ntp.conf on my FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE box. 1024s should do for me.
Greetz, Peter.
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