Re: ntpd won't set clock

[Heinrich Rebehn <rebehn@ant.uni-bremen.de>]

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.
> 
Thanks to all who replied :-) A bug report already exists:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=330587

--Heinrich