Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
Moshe, What part of "keep the replies on the list" didn't you understand. Reply to the list.
That'd be the part where I misread the statement. My apologies.
Try ntp. Read the ntp docs package. They say "after a suitable period of mourning, the ntpdate program may be retired". After all, the ntp program with iburst, -q and -g or -x if necessary gives a better algorithm, error correction, and debugging than ntpdate.
ntpd simply never forms a peer relationship even though I've tried many different options.
The -q option mimics ntpdate.The -x option increases the slew threshold; what I need is more rapid, not less rapid, synchronization. If I'm losing 2.5% of my clock, a slew rate of 0.5 ms/s isn't going to keep up. I've tried similar settings to "-x" through the "tinker" option in the configuration file, but I will give it another shot.
The -g option does work; it's a Debian default configuration option (/etc/defaults/ntp). I get a step adjustment the first time I start ntpd. Unfortunately, after that initial step, I never get any subsequent synchronization and ntpd never forms a peer relationship.
-- Moshe Yudkowsky * moshe@pobox.com * www.pobox.com/~moshe "Live fast. Die young. Leave no documentation." -- Programmer's Creed, as told by Mike Bakula