Installing and Administering Internet Services

226 Chapter 7

Conﬁguring NTP

Starting xntpd

To start xntpd, do one of the following:

• Set the environment variable XNTPD to 1 in the ﬁle

/etc/rc.config.d/netdaemons. This causes xntpd to start

automatically whenever the system is booted.

• Issue the following command to run the xntpd startup script:

/sbin/init.d/xntpd start

Command line arguments for starting xntpd may be speciﬁed with the

XNTPD_ARGS environment variable in the ﬁle

/etc/rc.config.d/netdaemons. See the xntpd man page for more

information about command line arguments.