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Subject: Re: Clock drift issues
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Try running ntpd rather than one off ntpdate?
I have plenty of physical machines that need this anyway.


Vince

On 30/05/2011 05:41, Alex wrote:
> Hi Guys,
>
> Running 8.2-RELEASE/amd64 as the operating system on my VPS.
>
> Every couple of weeks I am finding myself having to log in and resync
> the clock as it's drifted (I am in Au (GMT+10)).
>
>
> Today again:
>
> ----------------------------
>
> srv# date
> Mon May 30 14:21:16 EST 2011
>
> srv# /etc/rc.d/ntpdate start
> Setting date via ntp.
> 30 May 14:37:41 ntpdate[8207]: step time server 203.171.85.237 offset
> 958.736122 sec
>
> srv# date
> Mon May 30 14:37:43 EST 2011
>
> -----------------------------
>
>
> Is there any fix for this?
>
> Thanks, Alex.
>
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