ntpd does not work

[Sebastiaan <S.Breedveld@ITS.TUDelft.NL>]

Hello,

I have several computers running ntpd, but on one computer it does not
work. At first, that computer has 4 ntpd processes in stead of 1:

(output ps aux)
USER       PID %CPU %MEM   VSZ  RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME COMMAND
root     21748  0.0 38.9  3972 3964 ?        SL   Jan03   0:26 /usr/sbin/ntpd
root     21749  0.0 38.9  3972 3964 ?        SL   Jan03   0:03 /usr/sbin/ntpd
root     21750  0.0 38.9  3972 3964 ?        SL   Jan03   0:27 /usr/sbin/ntpd
root     21751  0.0  1.2  4096  124 ?        SL   Jan03   0:00 /usr/sbin/ntpd

but the worst is that the time is not correctly: 45 minutes ahead of the
correct time. The timezone is set correctley. My /etc/ntp.conf:
# /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 ntp.chello.nl


I use this timeserver for different computers, so I guess their time is
correct ;-). 

So, why does it not want to set the correct time? It eats memory.

Thanks in advance,
Sebastiaan




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