Re: ntpdate not working

[Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>]

On Fri, Dec 25, 2020 at 01:33:17PM +0100, Connor McLaughlan wrote:
> ntpdate=YES is set in /etc/rc.conf, however on boot i don't see any
> message regarding setting the time and the system time stays on a
> wrong value.

Probably it could not reach a suitable server.
What happens if you manually run

	/etc/rc.d/ntpdate start

later?

> >From my understanding if no option is given, it should read
> /etc/ntp.conf, fetch probably 2.netbsd.pool.ntp.org and set the time.

I don't think that is correct.

> It works if i execute it directly:
> bash-5.0# ntpdate 2.netbsd.pool.ntp.org
> 25 Dec 13:09:37 ntpdate[1000]: adjust time server 79.133.44.136 offset
> 0.072278 sec

All my sparc64 machines have prettty good clocks even when the machine
is turned off, so I don't take special care for initial time sync on
them (but just turn on ntpd=YES in rc.conf). On other machines I avoid
ntpdate and instaead run ntpd with ntpd_flags=-g (basically allowing ntpd
something similar to ntpdate at first sync).

Martin