System Administration Guide: Resource Management and Network Services

How to Set Up an NTP Client

  1. Become superuser.

  2. Create the ntp.conf file.

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


    # cd /etc/inet
    # cp ntp.client ntp.conf
    
  3. Start the xntpd daemon.


    # /etc/init.d/xntpd start