RE: TIME loss

On Thu, 2006-07-13 at 17:35 -0400, Chris Hill wrote:
On Thu, 13 Jul 2006, Jean-Paul Natola wrote:

But as I mentioned earlier

ntpd is running , when I do top

...?

Anyway, make sure your drift file exists and is writeable. Mine looks
like this:

$ ls -l /var/db/ntpd.drift
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 6 Jul 13 17:01 /var/db/ntpd.drift

If it's not there, just
# touch /var/db/ntpd.drift
...and verify permissions. ntpd should be able to take over from there.



Another thing: (assuming you don't want to use ntpdate) ntpd may not
sync to the time server if the local clock is "very" different from the
server's clock. To sync the clock on boot, you can add

ntpd_sync_on_start="NO" # Sync time on ntpd startup, even if offset is high

...to /etc/rc.conf.



HTH.

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Wouldn't 'ntpd_sync_on_start="YES"' work better? Or is it a very
non-intuitive parameter? Refer to
http://www.qnd-guides.org/qnd-ntpd.html


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