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Date:      Mon, 06 Sep 1999 13:59:29 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Don Read <dread@texas.net>
To:        Dan Langille <dan@unixathome.org>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   RE: xntpd: Previous time adjustment didn't complete
Message-ID:  <XFMail.990906135929.dread@texas.net>
In-Reply-To: <199909061044.WAA04751@freebsddiary.yi.org>

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On 06-Sep-99 Dan Langille wrote:
> I'm getting the following message in my logs:
> 
> Sep  6 18:10:07 ducky xntpd[163]: Previous time adjustment didn't complete
> Sep  6 18:12:06 ducky xntpd[163]: offset 0.093015 freq 96.530 poll 9
> Sep  6 19:04:25 ducky xntpd[163]: Previous time adjustment didn't complete
> Sep  6 19:12:06 ducky xntpd[163]: offset -0.052756 freq 96.530 poll 10
> Sep  6 20:12:06 ducky xntpd[163]: offset -0.018669 freq 96.700 poll 10
> Sep  6 21:12:06 ducky xntpd[163]: offset 0.041134 freq 96.629 poll 10
> Sep  6 21:21:14 ducky xntpd[163]: Previous time adjustment didn't complete
> Sep  6 22:12:06 ducky xntpd[163]: offset -0.002168 freq 96.596 poll 10
> 
> Is this something I should be concerned with?

When changing small values of time ntpdate & xntpd make a system call
adjtime() that speed/retards the system clock to catch-up to the desired
time.
The error msg is that adjtime() did not finish the catch-up before it got called
again with another adjustment.

Not a problem.

Regards,
---
Don Read                                 dread@calcasieu.com
EDP Manager                                  dread@texas.net
Calcasieu Lumber Co.                               Austin TX
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