On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 09:13:56AM +0200, Otto Moerbeek wrote: > On Wed, 28 Mar 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > hi, > > > > On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 01:49:16PM +0200, Otto Moerbeek wrote: > > > > > It looks like your clock drifts more that ntpd can compensate. Please > > > share some details on your setup, like the dmesg. Also, if you remove > > > the drift file, you must reboot, since otherwise the existing > > > frequency compensations stays in effect. > > > > ok, i cleared the drift-file and rebooted. as near as i can > > figure (i had to boot multiple times, and unclean at that) this > > is what happend slightly bfore/during/after the last boot (the times > > are so screwed i can't really make it out). > > Yep, this configrms it. Your clock is drifting so much that ntpd can't > keep up. I'm afraid there's not a lot I can do about that.
Unless I'm very confused, though, repeated use of something like rdate(8) will work, or, rather, 'work'... Joachim