Re: ntpd

["Jeremy T. Bouse" <Jeremy.Bouse@undergrid.net>]

	Well for one thing ntpd will not modify the clock if the time
difference is too great... ntpdate does not have this same problem,
which is why most people run ntpdate first before starting ntpd as
ntpdate will not run after ntpd is running... 

	In your example you show a clock skew of almost 7 hours... I have
seen ntpd refuse to modify the time if the skew is only 1 hour... I
believe if you investigate logs you will find this is the case of why
you see ntpd not having any affect...

	Respectfully,
	Jeremy T. Bouse

On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 10:44:34AM -0400, Andrew Dixon wrote:
> Hi All,
> I'm trying to run ntpd here to both set the clock and then keep it
> synchronized with our ntp server.  My problem is that ntpd seems to be
> trying to slew the clock instead of setting it.  Here is an example:
> 
> wolf:/home/andrew.dixon# date
> Fri Jun 15 03:46:54 EDT 2001
> wolf:/home/andrew.dixon# ntpd
> wolf:/home/andrew.dixon# date
> Fri Jun 15 03:47:00 EDT 2001
> wolf:/home/andrew.dixon# killall ntpd
> wolf:/home/andrew.dixon# ntpdate seranoa-fw.seranoa.com
> 27 Sep 10:36:56 ntpdate[257]: step time server 172.16.1.254 offset
> 9010177.053992 sec
> wolf:/home/andrew.dixon# date
> Thu Sep 27 10:37:01 EDT 2001
> 
> As you can see the ntpd does not step the clock to the correct time. 
> Here's my /etc/ntp.conf file:
> 
> # /etc/ntp.conf, configuration for xntpd
> 
> # ntpd will use syslog() if logfile is not defined
> #logfile /var/log/ntpd
> 
> driftfile /var/lib/ntp/ntp.drift
> statsdir /var/log/ntpstats/
> 
> 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
> 
> server seranoa-fw.seranoa.com
> 
> Any help on this one would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> Andy
> 
> 
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