ntpdate on FreeBSD 8.0

[Boris Samorodov]

On Tue, 1 Dec 2009 06:25:45 -0600 Franci Nabalanci wrote:

> I was not lucky. No one suggestions works. Maybe was wrong something with my
> installation CD? But thanks anywhere. I reinstalled FreeBSD 7.2 and it works
> without errors and very good.

It works for me at LAN, but I didn't manage to sync time by
ntpdate at start time either when using PPPoE at my friends home.
Seems that the network interface/something else is not
ready at the time ntpdate fires. May be setting:
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rc_debug="YES"
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at /etc/rc.conf[.local] will be helpful.

> On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 8:39 PM, ajtiM <lumiwa at gmail.com> wrote:

> > Hi!
> >
> > I have new installed FreeBSD 8.0 and in rc.conf I have:
> >
> > ntpdate_enable="YES"
> > ntpdate_hosts="ntp1.cs.wisc.edu"
> >
> > When I boot computer I get a message there are no this host but when I run
> > /usr/sbin/ntpdate ntp1.cs.wisc.edu it works.
> >
> > I had the same in rc.conf on FreeBSD 7.2 and it works all the time. All
> > settings on FreeBSD8.0 are the same as I had on 7.2.
> >
> > Thanks in advance.

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