TIME loss

[Bill Moran]

"Jean-Paul Natola" <jnatola at familycareintl.org> wrote:

> But as I mentioned earlier
> 
>   ntpd is running , when I do top

Couple of things:
1) NTP will refuse to adjust the clock if it's too far off.  If your
   clock is drifting very badly, this may cause ntp to be unable to
   correct it.
2) If your clock is drifting as badly as you describe, you may benefit
   from switching to a different hardware clock.  You can see which
   clocks are available via the sysctl kern.timecounter.choice, then
   trying changing kern.timecounter.hardware.
3) Check the logs for messages.  Normal operation produces stuff like
   this: 
   May 25 08:21:17 pa-plum1b-166 ntpd[130]: time set -32.027468 s
   May 25 09:04:19 pa-plum1b-166 ntpd[130]: time reset 0.758199 s
4) If the logs don't help, you can run ntpd in debugging mode with -d
   or -D <level>

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andy Greenwood [mailto:greenwood.andy at gmail.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2006 4:11 PM
> To: Jean-Paul Natola
> Cc: Peter A. Giessel; freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: TIME loss
> 
> IIRC, ntpdate only syncs your time at boot. You want something like
> 
> ntpd_enable="YES"
> 
> On 7/13/06, Jean-Paul Natola <jnatola at familycareintl.org> wrote:
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Peter A. Giessel [mailto:pgiessel at mac.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2006 2:33 PM
> > To: Jean-Paul Natola
> > Cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> > Subject: Re: TIME loss
> >
> > On 7/13/2006 10:13, Jean-Paul Natola seems to have typed:
> > > I do have the ntpd running,
> >
> > what does ntpq -p say?
> >
> >
> >
> > No association ID's returned
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> > Here's my rc.conf  entry
> >
> > ntpdate_enable="YES"
> > ntpdate_program="ntpdate"
> > ntpdate_flags="-b 192.168.1.3"
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