ntpd/ntpdate not setting time after upgrade to 14.2
Date: Sun, 06 Apr 2025 14:23:19 UTC
I reboot my freebsd system every sunday at 3AM (it runs in a VM on a
machine that needs a reboot every so often so I just do that and the
router/AP all at once). This was all good under 13.4 but now that I am on
14.2, I find the machine comes up in UTC and stays there until I set the
time by hand. I have ntpd and ntpdate both set to "on" in rc.conf, not sure
why or which makes more sense. ntpd is running but only sets the time if I
run it by hand. I only find this out when a cron job reports it can't
overwrite a file (backup from the day before).
Apr  5 20:02:19 <ntp.notice> www ntpd[767]: leapsecond file
('/var/db/ntpd.leap-seconds.list'): loaded, expire=2025-06-28T00:00:00Z
last=2017-01-01T00:00:00Z ofs=37
Apr  5 20:02:29 <ntp.err> www ntpd[767]: Clock offset exceeds panic
threshold.
Apr  5 20:02:29 <ntp.err> www ntpd[767]: Set system clock by hand.
Apr  6 07:14:05 <ntp.notice> www ntpd[3425]: ntpd 4.2.8p18-a (1): Starting
Apr  6 07:14:05 <ntp.notice> www ntpd[3425]: Command line: /usr/sbin/ntpd
-p /var/db/ntp/ntpd.pid -c /etc/ntp.conf -f /var/db/ntp/ntpd.drift
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