On May 8, 2007, at 8:33 AM, Martin Dieringer wrote:

On Tue, 8 May 2007, Oliver Fromme wrote:

Martin Dieringer wrote:
> My clock is now _15 minutes_ late, after about 1 day with powerd
> running.
> ntpd is running also.
> Can nobody tell where the problem is here?

Are you sure that your /etc/ntp.conf ist correct?


# cat /etc/ntp.conf

server time.fu-berlin.de iburst maxpoll 9

Add other servers but don't use iburst, nor reduce the default maxpoll. In your case try something like

   server 0.de.pool.ntp.org
   server 1.de.pool.ntp.org
   server 2.de.pool.ntp.org
   server 3.de.pool.ntp.org

Keep in mind that you will get better quality time by using multiple servers at higher strata than you will by using just one stratum 1 server. Well managed stratum 4 servers really are good enough (and often a better choice given availability).

Are there any messages from ntpd in /var/log/messages?
What's the output from "ntpq -p"?

# ntpq -p
No association ID's returned
#

That's not good. I think that adding more servers (as suggested above) will help.

Also if you have other machines on your local network, you can use them to peer with the one with the bad clock.

So add

  peer some-local-net-machine
  peer some-other-local-net-machine

to ntp.conf

I recall some discussion earlier on this list (I think) about these problems with powerd and clocks. The solution involved some tuning with sysctl or something similar. I'm sorry I can't be more specific.

You may also try to set things to restart ntpd on dial-up.

-j


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