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Date:      Wed, 6 Dec 2000 15:46:03 -0800
From:      "Crist J. Clark" <cjclark@reflexnet.net>
To:        User Land <userland@techie.com>
Cc:        cjclark@alum.mit.edu, danny@ricin.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: rc & ntp weirdness
Message-ID:  <20001206154603.A68045@149.211.6.64.reflexcom.com>
In-Reply-To: <384520112.976119941188.JavaMail.root@web651-mc>; from userland@techie.com on Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 11:25:41AM -0500
References:  <384520112.976119941188.JavaMail.root@web651-mc>

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On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 11:25:41AM -0500, User Land wrote:

[snip]

> >How do you know that ntpd is not doing anything?
> Over several (about 10 days, actually), there were no time
> adjustments logged in /var/log/messages,

That is expected. ntpd(8) only logs large changes.

> and ntp.drift never got
> created.

Hmmm... It should show up after an hour or so.

> I was able to use ntpdc to talk to the local server, but, not
> knowing what exactly to look for, I'm not sure what to do.

Try,

  $ ntpdc -c peers

> I have a FreeBSD 4.1 machine with exactly the same rc.conf
> directives for ntpd and the same ntp.conf file, and it functions
> as I expect: time adjustments a couple of times per day.

That is actually not expected. A properly functioning ntpd should not
need to be doing large adjustements.
-- 
Crist J. Clark                           cjclark@alum.mit.edu


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