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Taylor

Member

From: Clovis California USA

Registered: 2007-07-09

Posts: 49

Proper time

I can't seem to set the proper time for my system(trying to use Openntpd)

rc.conf(top config):

LOCALE="en_US.utf8"
HARDWARECLOCK="localtime"
USEDIRECTISA="no"
TIMEZONE="US/Pacific"
KEYMAP="us"
CONSOLEFONT=
CONSOLEMAP=
USECOLOR="yes"

Openntpd setup:

# $OpenBSD: ntpd.conf,v 1.7 2004/07/20 17:38:35 henning Exp $
# sample ntpd configuration file, see ntpd.conf(5)

# Addresses to listen on (ntpd does not listen by default)
#listen on *
#listen on 127.0.0.1
#listen on ::1

# sync to a single server
#server ntp.example.org

# use a random selection of 8 public stratum 2 servers
# see http://twiki.ntp.org/bin/view/Servers/NTPPoolServers
#servers pool.ntp.org
server 0.us.pool.ntp.org
server 1.us.pool.ntp.org
server 2.us.pool.ntp.org
server 3.us.pool.ntp.org

Daemons:

DAEMONS=(syslog-ng !network netfs crond @acpid @alsa @openntpd @sshd @hal @fam wicd cups gdm)

Ask if you need any more details on my setup, thanks!

bernarcher

Forum Fellow

From: Germany

Registered: 2009-02-17

Posts: 2,281

Re: Proper time

Not quite clear what your problem is. You cannot set the time at all? Or you don't get the proper time displayed?

In the latter case you may try if deleting /var/lib/hwclock/adjtime helps. It should contain a rather low correction value. You may also search the forum, there were several threads concerning time setting problems.

BTW, you should change your DAEMONS line to

DAEMONS=(syslog-ng hal !network netfs crond @acpid @alsa @openntpd @sshd @fam wicd cups gdm)

I.e. hal should be started as soon as possible and not be backgrounded as its services are needed by many daemons started afterwards.

Last edited by bernarcher (2009-08-11 20:55:27)

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PurplePerson

Member

Registered: 2007-05-06

Posts: 12

Re: Proper time

Along the same lines as bernarcher went; you also have your network management daemon 'wicd' starting up after a couple of network reliant services, 'openntpd' and 'sshd'. I'd perhaps move my 'wicd' entry to earlier in the list and not background it (to make sure the network is up an working when 'openntpd' and 'sshd' are started).

My daemons array is currently like:

DAEMONS=(syslog-ng hal !network wicd alsa netfs openntpd crond cpufreq)

and includes both the 'openntpd' and 'wicd' daemons. This is a pretty stripped down installation as you can see and I don't even have any daemons being started backgrounded yet (that will probably change - it is quite a fresh install). I'll certainly background the 'openntpd' daemon because it causes quite a delay in my startup time (possibly 10 secs).

For completion here is my /etc/ntpd.conf (unchanged from original)

# $OpenBSD: ntpd.conf,v 1.7 2004/07/20 17:38:35 henning Exp $
# sample ntpd configuration file, see ntpd.conf(5)

# Addresses to listen on (ntpd does not listen by default)
#listen on *
#listen on 127.0.0.1
#listen on ::1

# sync to a single server
#server ntp.example.org

# use a random selection of 8 public stratum 2 servers
# see http://twiki.ntp.org/bin/view/Servers/NTPPoolServers
servers pool.ntp.org

and the localization section from my /etc/rc.conf

LOCALE="en_GB.utf8"
HARDWARECLOCK="localtime"
USEDIRECTISA="no"
TIMEZONE="Europe/London"
KEYMAP="uk"
CONSOLEFONT=
CONSOLEMAP=
USECOLOR="yes"

Everything here works great so I hope something here helps you get yours working correctly.

fflarex

Member

Registered: 2007-09-15

Posts: 466

Re: Proper time

According to the wiki and personal experience, openntpd should NOT be backgrounded because it may cause the time to be set incorrectly. For some people it works fine, but if you're having problems try starting it in the foreground.

SpeedVin

Member

From: Poland

Registered: 2009-04-29

Posts: 955

Re: Proper time

Hello.
I got the same problem before just type:

date time that you want to have

Last edited by SpeedVin (2009-08-12 08:54:58)

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Taylor

Member

From: Clovis California USA

Registered: 2007-07-09

Posts: 49

Re: Proper time

Ok I moved my daemons array around..moving both hal(second in the array) and openntpd(after wicd, because wicd starts the network)

I'll report back if any failures, right now it says 12:56AM