Interpreting NTP status
Carmel NY
carmel_ny at outlook.com
Sun Jul 9 14:39:47 UTC 2017
A while back, I was receiving an error message about an outdated “leap
second” file. I Googled around and found an article that said to put
the following in the “rc.conf” file to correct the problem:
# NTPD
ntpd_enable="YES"
ntpd_sync_on_start="YES"
ntp_leapfile_fetch_verbose="YES"
ntp_leapfile_sources=ftp://tycho.usno.navy.mil/pub/ntp/leap-seconds.list
Then, I found another article that said to put this in the
“/etc/periodic.conf” file get information on the NTPD program:
# 480.leapfile-ntpd
daily_ntpd_leapfile_enable="YES" # Fetch NTP leapfile
daily_ntpd_avoid_congestion="YES" # Avoid congesting leapfile sources
# 480.status-ntpd
daily_status_ntpd_enable="YES" # Check NTP status
Now, in the “daily run output” email, I find this:
NTP status:
remote refid st t when poll reach delay offset jitter
==============================================================================
+198.55.111.50 133.157.29.35 3 u 760 1024 377 87.913 5.793 18.418
*192.155.90.13 142.66.101.13 2 u 264 1024 377 45.449 -2.235 2.925
2607:fa18::2407 .STEP. 16 u - 1024 0 0.000 0.000 0.000
I am hoping someone can tell me exactly what this means. I cannot find
any documentation on how to interpret this.
--
Carmel
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