ntpd / time synchronization

Anton Shterenlikht mexas at bristol.ac.uk
Mon Jul 27 22:53:21 UTC 2009


On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 12:44:50AM +0200, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I guess there is something simple that is wrong but my server is not 
> really keeping the correct time. I have these options in /etc/rc.conf
> 
> ntpd_enable="YES"
> ntpd_flags="-g -c /etc/ntp.conf -p /var/run/ntpd.pid -f /var/db/ntp.drift"
> 
> and here's the details of /etc/ntp.conf file:
> 
> server 0.pl.pool.ntp.org
> server 1.pl.pool.ntp.org
> server 2.pl.pool.ntp.org
> server 3.pl.pool.ntp.org
> driftfile /var/db/ntp.drift
> restrict default nopeer nomodify
> 
> I used to have server 0.europe.pool.ntp.org in the ntp.conf file but 
> today changed all entries to *.pl.pool.*
> 
> At the moment my clock is about 3 minutes behind time. It has been 
> running for a year and I do not have ntpdate enabled so I guess 
> subsequent reboots did not correct the drifting problem.
> 
> Is there anything obvious I am missing here? Any advice would be greatly 
> appreciated!

what does "ntpq -p" give you?

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