[ntp:questions] Synchronizing contrived time

Per Hedeland per at hedeland.org
Tue Mar 11 21:45:23 UTC 2014


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Amit Dor-Shifer <amit.dor.shifer at gmail.com> writes:
>
>$ cat ~/test_ntpd/ntp.conf
>server 127.127.1.0 minpoll 4 maxpoll 4

>$ sudo ntpd -g -f ~/test_ntpd/ntp.conf
                ^^^

>Mar 11 19:54:06  ntpd[31081]: format error frequency file
>/home/amit/test_ntpd/ntp.conf

$ man ntpd
...
     ntpd [-aAbDdgLmnPqx] [-c conffile] [-f driftfile] [-k keyfile]
          [-l logfile] [-p pidfile] [-r broadcastdelay] [-s statsdir] [-t key]
          [-v variable] [-V variable]

I.e. you need '-c' to give an alternate config file.

--Per Hedeland



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