system clock messed up

[mike horansky <moho@cyclone.Stanford.EDU>]

Hi there.

I have a linux box running Debian pre-1.3 distibution, kernel version
2.0.27, and installed xntpd. The latter doesn't seem to prevent the
system time from veering off wildly. As a band-aid solution I have
netdate running every 12 hours. Each time it runs it has to correct by
300 to 500 seconds. Thinking that maybe xntpd was working against it,
I turned it off, but then netdate had to make even larger corrections.

My machine is using a Tyan S1668 motherboard. Below is the ntp.conf
file, partially borrowed from a solaris machine that has proper system
time:

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# NTP configuration file (ntp.conf)

# servers
# connection name version <prefer>
#server clock-a version 3               # avallone, 36.56.0.152
#server clock-b version 3               # mashhad, 171.64.64.64
server clock-c  version 3   prefer      # argus, time, 36.56.0.151
#server clock-d version 3               # ee, 36.20.0.185
server clock-e  version 3               # leland, 36.21.0.69
server clock-f  version 3               # jessica, 36.21.0.20

# Miscellaneous stuff

logfile /var/log/xntpd
#precision -18                  # clock reading precision (usec)
driftfile /var/lib/ntp/ntp.drift        # path for drift file
statsdir /var/log/ntpstats/     # directory for statistics files
statistics loopstats peerstats clockstats
filegen loopstats file loopstats type day enable
filegen peerstats file peerstats type day enable
filegen clockstats file clockstats type day enable

# Authentication stuff

#keys /usr/local/bin/ntp.keys   # path for keys file
#trustedkey 1 2 3 4 14 15       # define trusted keys
#requestkey 15                  # key (7) for accessing server variables
#controlkey 15                  # key (6) for accessing server variables
#authdelay 0.000072             # authentication delay (SPARC4c/65 SS1+ DES)
#authdelay 0.000159             # authentication delay (SPARC4c/65 SS1+ MD5)
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Mail any answers directly to me, and I will mail a summary to the
list. Any help would be appreciated.



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-Mike Horansky, Leland Consultant (http://consult.stanford.edu/)
 moho@cyclone.stanford.EDU

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