resetting clock after power outage

[Murray Taylor]

if you have ntp setup you may need to do a single  

ntpdate -b

or

ntpd -q

to get the clock within a reasonable limit so ntpd can run properly

man (8) ntpd
man (8) ntpdate


Murray Taylor

Special Projects Engineer
Bytecraft Systems

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org 
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of jekillen
> Sent: Monday, 8 May 2006 2:11 PM
> To: freebsd-questions
> Subject: resetting clock after power outage
> 
> Hello;
> I have a problem that I can't, so far find and answer to.
> How do you reset the system clock after a power outage has 
> caused it to loose time?
> I have a machine that went down a month or so ago and since 
> have noticed that the time stamp on such things as mail to 
> the root account, and log entries is way behind what it should be.
> The system is FreeBSD v6.0 and does not have Xwindows 
> installed on it. So I need to find out how to reset the clock 
> from the command line. I thought I could do it with 
> sysinstall but I don't see an option for actually setting the 
> time, only the time zone.
> I presume that it is important, now, as I am running named on 
> it as a master server and I believe it is important that it 
> be in sync with the slave server running on another machine 
> that was off at the time of the outage.
> I thought maybe the bios had something to do with it but 
> haven't seen a way to reset the time in the bios either.
> Thanks for assistance in advance;
> JK
> 
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