Setting up ntpd on FreeBSD (5.4)

[Benjamin Keating]

Thanks! ntpdate running after ntpd was what was causing the problem.
Also a good reminder to grep out relevant parts in
/etc/defaults/rc.conf... as my conf file was, by default
/var/db/ntpd.drift'. No wonder my /etc/ntpd.conf didn't get touched.

Thanks again Sean.
- bpk

On 5/12/05, Sean Murphy <smurphy at calarts.edu> wrote:
> Ensure you due ntpdate before you run ntpd.
> This can be done just once from the command line and ntpd cannot be running.
> 
> ntpdate ntp2.sf-bay.org
> 
> then add the following to /etc/rc.conf
> ntpd_enable="YES"
> ntpd_flags="-c /etc/ntp.conf -p /var/run/ntpd.pid"
> 
> between the lines is a example of ntp.conf in /etc
> ====
> #List of servers to pull time from
> server ntp2.sf-bay.org
> server clock.isc.org
> server clock.via.net
> server ntp.ucsd.edu
> 
> #This is created automaticaly you do not have to touch it
> #However it might take hours for it to be created
> driftfile /var/db/ntp.drift
> 
> #This Line restricts which hosts are allowed to pull from your box
> restrict 172.30.0.0 mask 255.255.0.0 notrust nomodify notrap
> 
> ===
> 
> restart your box
> 
> check ntp using ntpdc
> 
> $ ntpdc -s
>      remote           local      st poll reach  delay   offset    disp
> =======================================================================
> .bigben.ucsd.edu 198.182.157.33   2 1024  377 0.01555  0.038196 0.01865
> *clock.via.net   198.182.157.33   1 1024  377 0.02483  0.038705 0.01482
> .clock.isc.org   198.182.157.33   2 1024  377 0.02481  0.040574 0.01482
>  zorac.sf-bay.or 198.182.157.33   2 1024  377 0.01485  0.044078 0.01865
> 
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