October 4, 2013 – Dan Langille's Other Diary

Oct 4 2013

different times despite running ntpd

Leave a Comment / FreeBSD, Nagios, nrpe / By Dan Langille / October 4, 2013

Last week, while at EuroBSDCon in Malta, I noticed that one of my servers had the wrong time. It was Bacula who told me, through this message in one of the backup jobs: 28-Sep 21:59 nyi-fd JobId 144899: DIR and FD clocks differ by -5 seconds, FD automatically compensating Fixing the time I connected to all my systems, and ran date(1). One system was by 2 seconds, and another was off by 5 […]

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Things to do

I have a number of things I want to get done in the short term: remove the mail server on my gateway box at home and start using a mail server on an internal box Configure my external mail servers (out there on the Internet) to use TLS when talking to each other Configure those same servers to accept mail from that new internal mail server Stop using Postfix on servers which only