Re: ntpd vs ntpdate with no hardware clock

On Sun, Jul 7, 2024, 10:24 AM Mark Millard <marklmi@yahoo.com> wrote:

> On Jul 7, 2024, at 09:01, bob prohaska <fbsd@www.zefox.net> wrote:
>
> > Just tried using ntpd with a fresh 14.1 installation on a Pi4.
> > Near as I can tell, ntpd reports a failure due to the clock
> > being off by too much, even if it's set manually to within
> > a minute before reboot. Probably that's caused by the lack
> > of a hardware clock on the Pi4, linux has a bodge called
> > fake-hwclock. Is there an equivalent workaround for FreeBSD?
> >
> > In the meantime ntpdate seems to work, though deprecated
>
> FYI: my /etc/rc.conf for media sometimes used on such
> hardware has:
>
> ntpd_enable="YES"
> ntpd_sync_on_start="YES"
> ntpd_user="root"
>
> "man 5 rc.conf" reports about ntpd_sync_on_start :
>
>      ntpd_sync_on_start
>                  (bool) If set to “YES”, ntpd(8) is run with the -g flag,
>                  which syncs the system's clock on startup.  See ntpd(8)
> for
>                  more information regarding the -g option.  This is a
>                  preferred alternative to using ntpdate(8) or specifying
> the
>                  ntpdate_enable variable.
>

Maybe it is -g now. This is better advice than what i said..

Warner


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