* sean conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-07-19 01:33]: > G'Day, > Is there a way to reduce the interval NTPD polls for time updates? > I have installed 3.7 and have determined NTPD is contacting the time > server approx. 30sec.
ntpd scales the quey interval down itself based on the offset. > My normal configuration in 3.4 was to configure > /etc/ntpd.conf with 5 time servers and turn NTPD loose. If I do that now > the server has port 123 connections open all the time. it does not have connections open all the time; ntp uses udp and that is connectionless anyway. it odes have sockets open all the time, that is the way things work. -- BS Web Services, http://www.bsws.de/ OpenBSD-based Webhosting, Mail Services, Managed Servers, ... Unix is very simple, but it takes a genius to understand the simplicity. (Dennis Ritchie)
