Digital Server 3300 hardware clock
Richard J. Valenta
RJV at WEBLINKMO.COM
Sun Apr 3 07:43:18 PDT 2005
I don't know if this question is stupid, but I don't know & I'm here to learn... but why shouldn't Kyle be using 5.0-RELEASE? Because there have been other releases, or because of this particular machine?
rjv
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-freebsd-alpha at freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-alpha at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Sent: Sunday, April 03, 2005 9:02 AM
To: Dave
Cc: alpha at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Digital Server 3300 hardware clock
Dave <friend at vortex4.net> writes:
> On Sat, Apr 02, 2005 at 11:49:54AM -0600, Kyle S. Allender wrote:
> > I'm having a problem with FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE on a Digital Server 3300 (or
> > at least I think it's a 3300). I converted this from an NT 4 server machine
> > almost 3 years ago and it's been running fine under 4.x/5.x for a very long
> > time.
You shouldn't be running 5.0-RELEASE.
> > However, one issue I've continually had with this machine is that the
> > hardware clock is off by almost 2 hours. Ntpd can't keep the correct time
> > because the hardware clock is too far off.
> If you ntpdate at startup, your system clock will be set to the date you get
> via ntp regardless of skew. Put the following in /etc/rc.conf:
>
> ntp_enable="YES"
> ntp_flags="-b ntp.server.here"
> ntpd_enable="YES"
>
> That should get you set up :>
no. you want
ntpdate_enable="YES"
ntpd_enable="YES"
both ntpdate and ntpd use the servers listed in /etc/ntp.conf, which
should contain something like
server europe.pool.ntp.org
server europe.pool.ntp.org
server europe.pool.ntp.org
round-robin DNS will take care of the rest.
obviously, if you're not in Europe, you'll want to use a different
pool.
the official list of public ntp servers is at
http://ntp.isc.org/bin/view/Servers/WebHome
if you just want to set the clock once, run
# ntpdate pool.ntp.org pool.ntp.org pool.ntp.org
DES
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Dag-Erling Smørgrav - des at des.no
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