Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 18:20:40 -0400 From: Mike Jeays <mj001@rogers.com> To: Chris Hill <chris@monochrome.org> Cc: Jean-Paul Natola <jnatola@familycareintl.org>, Andy Greenwood <greenwood.andy@gmail.com>, "Peter A. Giessel" <pgiessel@mac.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: TIME loss Message-ID: <1152829240.809.110.camel@chaucer.jeays.ca> In-Reply-To: <20060713172641.Q43814@tripel.monochrome.org> References: <3A85D7EF44E1C744BF6434691F5659E997548B@www.fcimail.org> <20060713172641.Q43814@tripel.monochrome.org>
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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. > > -- > Chris Hill chris@monochrome.org > ** [ Busy Expunging <|> ] > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" 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
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