How to confirm/deny ntp is working?

[Samuel Martín Moro]

you may want add to your ntpd.conf:
driftfile /your/drift
logfile /your/log

to confirm, you can change your system date, and see wether it comes back to
normal

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On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 10:23 PM, Ed Flecko <edflecko at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi folks,
> I've read several different sources on setting up ntp on FreeBSD (I'm
> using 8.1), and they seem to vary a little, so I'm confused about how
> DO you set this up, and how do you confirm/deny that it's working?
>
> I've modified my /etc/ntp.conf file by commenting out:
>
> #server 0.freebsd.pool.ntp.org iburst maxpoll 9
> #server 1.freebsd.pool.ntp.org iburst maxpoll 9
> #server 2.freebsd.pool.ntp.org iburst maxpoll 9
> #server 3.freebsd.pool.ntp.org iburst maxpoll 9
>
> and changing them to read (I'm in the U.S.):
>
>  server 0.US.pool.ntp.org iburst maxpoll 9
>  server 1.US.pool.ntp.org iburst maxpoll 9
>  server 2.US.pool.ntp.org iburst maxpoll 9
>
> I have confirmed that I can ping these servers.
>
> I've added ntpd_enable="YES" and ntpd_sync_on_start="YES" to
> /etc/rc.conf and rebooted the server.
>
> 1.) Do I need to manually create the "driftfile" (/var/db/ntpd.drift)?
>
> 2.) Do I need to manually create the logfile (/var/log/ntp.log)?
>
> 3.) How do you confirm that FreeeBSD is, in fact, keeping time?
>
> Thank you,
> Ed
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