Setting up ntpd on FreeBSD (5.4)

Rob spamrefuse at yahoo.com
Fri May 13 22:39:09 PDT 2005


--- Michal Mertl <mime at traveller.cz> wrote:
> Rob wrote:
> > Michal Mertl wrote:> 
> > > /etc/ntp directory isn't used by default on 5.4.
> > > The default location for ntp.drift file is
> > > /var/db.
> > > I've never created it by hand (not even by
> > > 'touching' it), it gets created automatically.
> > 
> > No, there's no such default as
> > "/var/db/ntp.drift".
> > It's either "/etc/ntp.drift" or
> > "/var/db/ntpd.drift",
> > depending on which of the two you consider is the
> > 'most' default :).
> 
> Sorry again for increasing the confusion. I hope it
> still helped the original poster.

No need for apologizing; I only wanted to point out
that there's more than one 'default' for ntpd with
FreeBSD, depending whether you focus on ntpd itself,
or FreeBSD's configuration...

Rob.

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