Re: ntp problem

[Rick Thomas <rbthomas@pobox.com>]

Hi Pierre,

Please post the contents of these files:

/etc/adjtime
/etc/default/adjtimex
/var/lib/ntp/ntp.drift

Thanks!
Rick

On Jun 26, 2014, at 8:08 AM, Pierre Frenkiel <pierre.frenkiel@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 26 Jun 2014, Rob Owens wrote:
> 
>>> On Wed, 25 Jun 2014, Bob Proulx wrote:
>>>> Utilities such as NTP are really good at adjusting the counting per
>>>> second to tune the OS view of time to be very accurate.  If that isn't
>>>> working then I suspect some other problem.  Such as two daemons
>>>> fighting each other both trying to adjust the clock.  Or some other
>>>> failure.
>> 
>> Maybe a cron job running ntpdate?
> 
>  it's what I did up to now, (ntpdate or rdate), but the drift
>  became too big, even with a call in cron.hourly
> 
> best regards,
> -- 
> Pierre Frenkiel