Fsk141

NTP is one of the best utilities for any system. It automagically corrects your time according to the ntp time servers. Here’s how to enable it on OpenSolaris:

I would recommend doing the following commands logged in via root (sudo su -):

cp /etc/inet/ntp.client /etc/ntp.conf
vi /etc/ntp.conf

Append the following to ntp.conf:

server 0.pool.ntp.org
server 1.pool.ntp.org
server 2.pool.ntp.org

Then run the following commands:

svcadm enable svc:/network/ntp:default
svcadm restart svc:/network/ntp:default

The ‘restart’ might not be absolutely necessary, but it’s done to check everything is in order.

If you would like to check that everything is up and running:

svcs -a | grep ntp

It should give you something similar to the following:

online         Feb_03   svc:/network/ntp:default

Enjoy your auto-updated time