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Re: ntpd won't set clock



On Thursday 03 November 2005 09:35, James Strandboge wrote:
>On Wed, 2005-11-02 at 09:57 +0100, Heinrich Rebehn wrote:
>> adjusting local clock by 3436.456532s
>> adjtime failed: Invalid argument
>
>This call to adjtime has to be the problem.  I just tried openntpd here
>and it works fine when the clock is not off by so much.  Maybe you
>should file a bug and use ntpdate on boot to get the clock close until
>the proper fix is implemented.

The daemon starter in my init.d (FC2) directory does exactly that, by
running ntpdate to crash set it before it starts ntp.  And running with a 
1khz
clock here, I've had no drifting problems with kernel 2.6.14 final.

>
>--
>James Strandboge
>jamie@strandboge.com

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