From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Nov 6 22:37: 1 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from oddjob.trewitt.org (adsl-216-102-95-11.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [216.102.95.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 519FB37B416 for ; Tue, 6 Nov 2001 22:36:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from trewitt.org (g4.trewitt.org [10.0.0.4]) by oddjob.trewitt.org (8.11.3/8.11.1) with ESMTP id fA76alh44601; Tue, 6 Nov 2001 22:36:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from glenn@trewitt.org) Message-ID: <3BE8D67E.60C85827@trewitt.org> Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2001 22:36:58 -0800 From: Glenn Trewitt Reply-To: glenn@trewitt.org X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 (Macintosh; U; PPC) X-Accept-Language: en,pdf MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Harding Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ntpd problems? References: <20011106141816.9F53A13573@netcom1.netcom.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-mac-type="54455854"; x-mac-creator="4D4F5353" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Well, since your log shows the time getting stepped only one way, it has to be your clock. Unless, of course, there are a whole bunch of tiny clock slews the opposite direction, which don't show up in your log. This seems to be unlikely. If you want to get rid of the messages, you can specify the "-x" flag to ntpd. However, read the man page first and make sure that ntpdate is called successfully at boot time, otherwise you could end up with a badly mis-set clock for a very long time. - Glenn Trewitt Mike Harding wrote: > it might be my clock, but I am suddenly seeing lots of... > > bash-2.05$ grep reset /var/log/messages > Nov 3 07:35:57 netcom1 ntpd[189]: time reset 0.627666 s > Nov 3 16:03:29 netcom1 ntpd[188]: time reset 0.370751 s > Nov 4 05:06:01 netcom1 ntpd[185]: time reset 0.478860 s > Nov 4 14:31:09 netcom1 ntpd[187]: time reset 0.137700 s > Nov 4 17:37:54 netcom1 ntpd[188]: time reset 1.071828 s > Nov 4 19:26:03 netcom1 ntpd[188]: time reset -0.318037 s > Nov 4 19:47:37 netcom1 ntpd[188]: time reset 0.558822 s > Nov 4 20:27:27 netcom1 ntpd[188]: time reset 1.050031 s > Nov 5 05:05:55 netcom1 ntpd[185]: time reset 0.421592 s > Nov 5 05:37:59 netcom1 ntpd[185]: time reset 0.257157 s > Nov 5 12:09:58 netcom1 ntpd[185]: time reset 1.985702 s > Nov 5 19:09:44 netcom1 ntpd[185]: time reset 0.159401 s > Nov 5 21:02:37 netcom1 ntpd[223]: time reset 0.787817 s > Nov 6 03:10:38 netcom1 ntpd[223]: time reset 0.201159 s > bash-2.05$ > > in /var/log/messages. Any ideas? > > - Mike H. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message