How to Set Up an NTP Client

1. Become superuser or assume an equivalent role.

   Roles contain authorizations and privileged commands. For more information about roles, see Configuring RBAC (Task Map) in System Administration Guide: Security Services. To configure a role with the Primary Administrator profile, see Chapter 2, Working With the Solaris Management Console (Tasks), in System Administration Guide: Basic Administration.

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.

   # svcadm enable network/ntp