How to sync your clock on Solaris
So you have your squeaky fresh solaris or solaris express install and the clock is all wrong. You want it to be correct allways, perfectly synced to the internet. I suggest you use the services of pool.ntp.org. Pool.ntp.org is a pool of servers that are publicly available for Network TIme Protocol requests on the internet.
So lets go for it
Create the file /etc/inet/ntp.conf and add the following to it:
driftfile /var/ntp/ntp.drift
server 0.pool.ntp.org
server 1.pool.ntp.org
server 2.pool.ntp.org
Now activate your ntp daemon:
svcadm enable ntp
et voila, your clock is allways up to date.
You can check your time differences with:
ntpq -p
which should give you an output like:
bash-3.00# ntpq -p
remote refid st t when poll reach delay offset disp
==============================================================================
admin.curacao.b ntp1.linx.net 2 u 44 64 1 25.57 1.529 15875.0
static.80.254.4 ns.tele.dk 2 u 44 64 1 37.51 -3.456 15875.0
ntp1.adviseo.ne clock.sjc.he.ne 2 u 44 64 1 25.42 -3.154 15875.0
bash-3.00#
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