J Moore wrote:
I just installed 3.8 on a Soekris net4801 that's been laying around for
a while (unused, unpowered). I noticed after install that time was off
by like 5 months, so I set it to within a few minutes of current
time/date from the wall clock.
I've been checking the logs, and this is what I'm seeing... this has
been going on for about 8 hours now. Why is ntpd having to make 60+
second adjustments every 3-5 minutes? It would appear the clock on the
Soekris is really BFU.
Nov 14 06:30:10 opie ntpd[4133]: adjusting local clock by -91.931803s
Nov 14 06:34:22 opie ntpd[4133]: adjusting local clock by -90.983786s
ntpd does not immediately set the time, but uses adjtime(2) instead. So
your time is getting closer and closer to being accurate.
man ntpd
man adjtime
You might be interested in the -s switch of ntpd, which is set by
default by rc(8).
/Alexander
