[TriLUG] How to get ntpd to work
Matt Pusateri
mpusateri at wickedtrails.com
Mon Mar 21 15:27:04 EST 2005
On Mon, March 21, 2005 2:57 pm, Randall Barlow said:
> Matt Pusateri wrote:
>
>>First does your ntp.drift file exist? ntpd will usually not start
>> nor
>>will it create the drift file. So normally you need to touch the
>> file
>>first before ntpd will work.
>>
>>
> I do not have a ntp.drift file. Where should I create it?
Ok, you definetly need one. On my freebsd box it is in /var/db/ I
don't know where different linux distros put it. Somewhere is /var I
suppose. You can use the -f flag to specify where your drift file is.
> I did this because the man page to the ntpd told me to. Any reason it
> could hurt?
It shouldn't
Matt
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