Re: ntpd crashes.
On 17 September 2012 19:33, Gerald Turner <gturner@unzane.com> wrote:
> Mauro <mrsanna1@gmail.com> writes:
>> I think ntpd crashes are because my server lost time.
>> I have ntpd in two server, now I've seen that in one of these ntp
>> crashes and the time of the server is 1 hour forward.
>> That's why ntp crashes: server time goes 1 hour forward and ntp can't
>> resynchronize so it crashes.
>> Now I don't know why my server time goes 1 hour forward.
>> Hwclock --debug says that the time is correct, it is set on UTC, so
>> why sometimes it goes forward?
>> Perhaps a problem in the cmos battery?
>
> Hi Mauro, I find this interesting because I have seen the same behavior
> with ntpd crashes on my server. Time jumps forward one hour every time
> this has happened. However I'm not convinced it's the hardware causing
> ntpd to crash. I don't understand why ntpd process exiting silently
> would allow the jump either, I would expect it to drift a few seconds
> over time, but one hour exactly every time?! Even with monit in place,
> within the two minute window that polling takes place and ntpd has
> crashed, before monit automatically starts ntpd, time is forward an
> hour.
I'm trying openntp now, I hope it works.
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