Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2002 16:44:11 +0200 From: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> To: Casey Scott <casey@nixfusion.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ntpd Message-ID: <20020406144411.GA25519@student.uu.se> In-Reply-To: <000701c1dd75$f3b1c330$0601a8c0@nixfusion.com> References: <000701c1dd75$f3b1c330$0601a8c0@nixfusion.com>
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On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 09:18:40AM -0500, Casey Scott wrote: > > The following messages log entries are concerning me. I don't know if I > should interpret it as the system isn't updating it's time properly, or it's > time keeping mechanism is bad. > > Apr 6 00:09:19 spareparts ntpd[12778]: kernel time discipline status 2040 > Apr 6 00:12:43 spareparts ntpd[12778]: time slew -72.208070 s > Apr 6 00:12:43 spareparts ntpd[12778]: kernel time discipline status change > 2041 > Apr 6 00:34:02 spareparts ntpd[12778]: time slew -71.751602 s > Apr 6 00:51:18 spareparts ntpd[12778]: time slew -70.855702 s > Apr 6 01:09:32 spareparts ntpd[12778]: time slew -69.938346 s > Apr 6 01:26:46 spareparts ntpd[12778]: time slew -69.033806 s [snip] > Apr 6 08:26:22 spareparts ntpd[12778]: time slew -47.709321 s > Apr 6 08:41:21 spareparts ntpd[12778]: time slew -46.791000 s > Apr 6 09:04:57 spareparts ntpd[12778]: time slew -45.934261 s > Apr 6 09:12:26 spareparts ntpd[12778]: time slew -45.155585 s > > Isn't the system suppose to adjust it's time after the ntp query > provides the correct time? Why does it only seem to be getting better a > second or so at a time? I would appreciate any advice. Two possibilities come to mind. Either you are running ntpd with the -x flag, which will make it only slew the time and not step it. The other possibility is that you running at securelevel 2 or higher which will prevent the time being adjusted by more than 1 second at a time. (But if this is the case you should see some mention of it in the logs.) -- <Insert your favourite quote here.> Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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