Re: ntpd vs ntpdate with no hardware clock

On Jul 7, 2024, at 09:01, bob prohaska <fbsd@www.zefox.net> wrote:

> Just tried using ntpd with a fresh 14.1 installation on a Pi4.
> Near as I can tell, ntpd reports a failure due to the clock
> being off by too much, even if it's set manually to within
> a minute before reboot. Probably that's caused by the lack
> of a hardware clock on the Pi4, linux has a bodge called
> fake-hwclock. Is there an equivalent workaround for FreeBSD?
> 
> In the meantime ntpdate seems to work, though deprecated

FYI: my /etc/rc.conf for media sometimes used on such
hardware has:

ntpd_enable="YES"
ntpd_sync_on_start="YES"
ntpd_user="root"

"man 5 rc.conf" reports about ntpd_sync_on_start :

     ntpd_sync_on_start
                 (bool) If set to “YES”, ntpd(8) is run with the -g flag,
                 which syncs the system's clock on startup.  See ntpd(8) for
                 more information regarding the -g option.  This is a
                 preferred alternative to using ntpdate(8) or specifying the
                 ntpdate_enable variable.



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Mark Millard
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