On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 05:23:15PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 08:02:12PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > > > Any NTP drift above half a second means something is completely broken, so > > *none* of your client machines are working fine. The two servers seem to > > work right. Make sure to also configure the two servers to *peer* each > > other, btw. > > vague memories in my head that ntp won't sync more than a half second > or so at a time, you have to use something else to get them closer and > then ntp can do it. I've used ntpdate in the past as a one-time sync > and then its worked after that. Also had a machine that was drifter > faster than ntp could keep up with, but after a few days of hitting > ntpdate randomly, it was able to calculate the drift enough to keep up > after that point. this is all vague memory, ymmv widely. > > A Hmm. I've used date (not ntpdate) to get the clock back to within a couple of seconds of my local NTP server. But it always drifts away again. Perhaps I should try ntpdate? Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com
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