Re: ntp problems

[Michael Shalayeff <mickey@lucifier.net>]

Making, drinking tea and reading an opus magnum from Oliver Bode:
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> Hello,
> 
> NTP has stopped working and I am not sure what's causing it. It is as if the
> time is not being updated as it used to. The other PCs on the LAN complain
> that my NTP server is not syncronized. My clock is about an hour slower per
> day than it should be. My ntp.drift file is being updated hourly but the
> value doesn't change from the value that I loaded into it. When I noticed
> the problem the driftfile had the value of 500.000 I have since set it to
> 1.000, but it hasn't moved.
> 
> I replaced the clock battery but that has done nothing. I have also tried
> debugging with ntpq but I can only see that my clock is out of sync with the
> time servers.
> 
> I noticed the problem after installing nagios, but I'm not sure if it's
> related. Does anyone know some things I cantry next to solve this problem?

krnel support for NTP was removed due to the license problems.
the author of the code violently refused to collaborate
on multiple occasions.

as a poor alternative use rdate -nas in the cron instead...

cu

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    paranoic mickey       (my employers have changed but, the name has remained)