Tom Brown writes:
>
> Hi
>
> On 5.3 i have a situation where some boxes have been 3 or 4 seconds out
> and restarting ntpd has fixed the issue.
>
> What i dont understand is why the clocks did not drift to the correct
> time when the config seems correct in that restarting ntp did correct
>
> Is the directory /var/lib/ntp present, and with write permissions for
> the 'ntp' user? Does the drift file exist?
> Does ntpd ever lock in? What do you see in 'ntpq -p' over time?
> Are these heavily-loaded boxes, or boxes with wildly-varying loads?
>
>
$ ll /var/lib/ntp
total 4
-rw-r--r-
Tom Brown wrote:
> Hi
>
> On 5.3 i have a situation where some boxes have been 3 or 4 seconds out
> and restarting ntpd has fixed the issue.
>
> What i dont understand is why the clocks did not drift to the correct
> time when the config seems correct in that restarting ntp did correct
> the tim
Hi
On 5.3 i have a situation where some boxes have been 3 or 4 seconds out
and restarting ntpd has fixed the issue.
What i dont understand is why the clocks did not drift to the correct
time when the config seems correct in that restarting ntp did correct
the time.
Is there something 'special
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