[ntp:questions] ntp.conf on FreeBSD

Steve Kostecke kostecke at ntp.org
Sat Oct 12 15:16:00 UTC 2013


On 2013-10-12, Charles Elliott <elliott.ch at verizon.net> wrote:

>I built a NAS using FreeNAS, which is in turn based on FreeBSD, which
>has ntpd installed. I need to find ntp.conf so I can configure it for
>broadcast mode and maybe the GPS, but I cannot find it. It is not in
>/etc.

http://doc.freenas.org/index.php/NTP_Servers discusses NTP configuration
for FreeNAS.

>Does anyone know where I should expect to find ntp.conf on FreeBSD?

According to an article in the discussion thread at
http://forums.freenas.org/threads/how-do-i-modify-an-etc-conf.10723/

"If you want to add additional settings to /etc/ntp.conf, you'll need to
hack /etc/rc.d/ix-ntpd (applying the changes to
/conf/base/etc/rc.d/ix-ntpd to make them permanent) as it is ix-ntpd
that writes out /etc/ntp.conf from scratch each the ntpd service is
started... You can also create the additional file from within ix-ntpd.
I'm really not sure why there is an ntp.conf at all in /conf/base/etc,
as it's ignored."

-- 
Steve Kostecke <kostecke at ntp.org>
NTP Public Services Project - http://support.ntp.org/



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