How to Set Up an NTP Client

1. Become an administrator.

   For more information, see Using Your Assigned Administrative Rights in Securing Users and Processes in Oracle Solaris 11.2 .

2. Create the ntp.conf file.

   To activate the ntpd daemon, the ntp.conf file must first be created.

   # cd /etc/inet
   # cp ntp.client ntp.conf

3. Edit the ntp.conf file.

   Make site specific changes to this file as needed.

4. Start the ntpd daemon.

   # svcadm enable ntp