TIME loss

[Mike Jeays]

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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> Chris Hill               chris at monochrome.org
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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