ntpd Re: /etc/rc.d/rpcbind requires ntpdate

Joerg Sonnenberger joerg at britannica.bec.de
Sat Feb 19 20:49:15 PST 2005


On Sat, Feb 19, 2005 at 10:54:38PM -0500, George Georgalis wrote:
> # cat /etc/ntpd.conf 
> # http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/~justin/handbook/network-ntp.html
> driftfile /var/db/ntp.drift
> servers us.pool.ntp.org

That handbook page is seriously outdated. It refers to the old
ntpd.

# cat /etc/ntpd.conf
servers us.pool.ntp.org

and ntpd_enabled="YES" in /etc/rc.conf.

That should be all. I guess he doesn't like the driftfile option, check
your syslog for error messages.

Joerg





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