Re: ntpdate problem

2010-03-13 Thread Антон Клесс
2010/3/13 Randal L. Schwartz mer...@stonehenge.com But really, why are you using ntpdate and not just ntpd? -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 mer...@stonehenge.com URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical

Re: ntpdate problem

2010-03-13 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 13/03/2010 14:47:31, Антон Клесс wrote: I saw that more than year ago on my teacher's server, when I was deal with my first FreeBSD, so it's just a kind of habit. It's a bad habit you should try and cure yourself of. Stepping the clock with

Re: ntpdate problem

2010-03-13 Thread Programmer In Training
While not having been part of this discussion I just want to say thanks for the tips. I've used them to cease using ntpdate as well and am already synced with a time server I know to be constantly reliable. -- Yours In Christ, PIT Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may

Re: ntpdate problem

2010-03-13 Thread RW
On Sat, 13 Mar 2010 18:03:42 + Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 13/03/2010 14:47:31, Антон Клесс wrote: I saw that more than year ago on my teacher's server, when I was deal with my first FreeBSD, so it's just a

Re: ntpdate problem

2010-03-13 Thread Programmer In Training
On 03/13/10 13:08, RW wrote: snip ntpd_sync_on_start=YES snip you can run ntpdate at boot with ntpdate_enable=YES the rc script gets the servers from ntp.conf Can you have both in rc.conf without abusing the ntp server(s) or should it just be one or the other? I'd like my clock to be

Re: ntpdate problem

2010-03-13 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 01:19:54PM -0600, Programmer In Training wrote: On 03/13/10 13:08, RW wrote: snip ntpd_sync_on_start=YES snip you can run ntpdate at boot with ntpdate_enable=YES the rc script gets the servers from ntp.conf Can you have both in rc.conf without

Re: ntpdate problem

2010-03-13 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 13/03/2010 19:08:38, RW wrote: ntpd_sync_on_start=YES is not a complete substitute for running ntpdate at startup. It allows ntpd to make a large correction, but it doesn't block the boot sequence so you could still get a large step-change

Re: ntpdate problem

2010-03-12 Thread Leslie Jensen
Антон Клесс skrev 2010-03-12 11:57: I have the following line in my root cron: 5 * * * * /usr/sbin/ntpdate ru.pool.ntp.org /dev/null That must hourly adjust system time via NTP. But I discover that it works from time to time: some days just once, some days 5-6 times a day I receive e-mail

Re: ntpdate problem

2010-03-12 Thread Nathan Vidican
man ntpdate: -s Divert logging output from the standard output (default) to the system syslog(3) facility. This is designed primarily for conve- nience of cron(8) scripts. Change your cron job to 5 * * * * /usr/sbin/ntpdate -s ru.pool.ntp.org This will

Re: ntpdate problem

2010-03-12 Thread RW
On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:22:07 -0500 Nathan Vidican nat...@vidican.com wrote: or more specifically, if you don't want to leave ntpd running, read-up on 'ntpd -q' which mimmicks the behavior of ntpdate but allows you to use multiple ntp servers. ntpdate supports multiple servers too, you just

Re: ntpdate problem

2010-03-12 Thread Антон Клесс
So, while ru.pool.ntp.org is pool of several servers, I have to run it as 5 * * * * /usr/sbin/ntpdate ru.pool.ntp.org ru.pool.ntp.org ru.pool.ntp.org /dev/null to check 3 servers from pool? 2010/3/12 RW rwmailli...@googlemail.com On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:22:07 -0500 Nathan Vidican

Re: ntpdate problem

2010-03-12 Thread RW
On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:06:45 +0300 Антон Клесс antoniok@gmail.com wrote: So, while ru.pool.ntp.org is pool of several servers, I have to run it as 5 * * * * /usr/sbin/ntpdate ru.pool.ntp.org ru.pool.ntp.org ru.pool.ntp.org /dev/null to check 3 servers from pool? You can different

Re: ntpdate problem

2010-03-12 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
RW == RW rwmailli...@googlemail.com writes: RW You can different servers like this: RW 0.ru.pool.ntp.org RW 1.ru.pool.ntp.org RW 2.ru.pool.ntp.org RW 3.ru.pool.ntp.org But really, why are you using ntpdate and not just ntpd? -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1