Re: ntp problems

[Anthony Schlemmer <aschlemm_(_at_)_attbi_(_dot_)_com>]

Before starting up ntpd, you should run "ntpdate" using the "-b" 
argument for force the time of day to be stepped using settimeofday() 
rather then slewed using adjtime().

Under OpenBSD this can be done by setting the ntpdate_flags variable in 
the /etc/rc.conf file with the appropriate arguments.

e.g:

ntpdate_flags="-sub -t 60 time.nist.gov"

Tony

On Wednesday 20 November 2002 03:03 am, Lou Hevly wrote:
> Greetings:
>
> I'm running OpenBSD 3.1 and have the xntpd daemon running to set my
> system time:
>
> root     18013  0.0  0.5   332   580 ??  S<s   28Oct02    1:30.57
> /usr/local/sbin/ntpd -p /var/run/ntpd.pid (xntpd)
>
> However, when I check the syncronization using ntpdate, the offset is
> more than 90 seconds:
>
> $ ntpdate -q 192.5.41.40
> server 192.5.41.40, stratum 1, offset 99.106836, delay 0.04544
> 20 Nov 10:54:31 ntpdate[14096]: step time server 192.5.41.40 offset
> 99.106836 sec
>
> What's more, this discrepancy is growing.
>
> Here's my ntp.conf file:
>
> $ cat /etc/ntp.conf
> server 192.5.41.40 prefer
> server 192.43.244.18
>
> Would someone please tell me what I'm doing wrong?  Thanks for your
> help.

-- 
Anthony Schlemmer
aschlemm_(_at_)_attbi_(_dot_)_com