On Tue, 29 Jun 2004, Glen Johnson wrote:

> Dear netbsd-help,
> I have a small home network with a 486 as my NetBSD box.  I am in the
> process of making it do more for me.  One of the things I want to do with
> it is have it run as my time server that all my other computers  
> synchronize
> from.  I read through most of the ntpd man page and the ntpdate man
> page.  I do understand that it is a bad idea to run them both
> simultaneously.  The man pages do a fine job of describing every possible
> flag or setting available.  What I can't find is something that pulls it
> all together to tell me what I need to do to have my 486 operate as a  
> time
> server and yet when I dial up my ISP then sync to a  real time server, or
> three.
> Should I:
> 1.  Run ntpd when I am not connected to my ISP.
> 2. Disable ntpd before connecting to my ISP.
> 3. Run ntpdate.
> 4. R enable ntpd after the update.

You could look at net/chrony in pkgsrc which deals with all this very well  
and is a lot more lightweight.

-- 
Stephen