i386/123462: clock is to fast

[Bruce Cran]

The following reply was made to PR i386/123462; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Bruce Cran <bruce at cran.org.uk>
To: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org, info at maroufi.net
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Subject: Re: i386/123462: clock is to fast
Date: Fri, 09 May 2008 22:26:46 +0100

 ntp is designed to compensate for that sort of drift, but it should be 
 run continuously: the best setup is to run ntpdate once on boot to make 
 any large adjustments but also to run ntpd so it can track and correct 
 any drift.
 
 There's a guide to configuring ntpd in the handbook at 
 http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/network-ntp.html
 
 -- 
 Bruce Cran