Archives for: August 2006
08/12/06
Network Time Protocol Daemon
The NTP is designed to keep clocks on multiple servers synchronized to Atomic Time and is a great tool for Server Administrators. You may be asking why a tool like this is important or why it would be necessary. Well the answer is very simple; over time, time keeping devices tend to "drift" off of an accurate measure. For instance, the watch on your wrist will drift over time and this is still a problem that occurs even on the most modern computers.
Prerequisites
- The examples in this article are all shown on FreeBSD 6.x
- The NTPd is part of the FreeBSD base files. You can install the daemon from ports but that is not covered in this document
- A CLI editor such as ee
- Additional files and references may be found at the end of the article
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