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Date:      Mon, 21 Aug 2000 01:07:44 +0200
From:      Len Conrad <lconrad@Go2France.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: some machines won't run xntpd 
Message-ID:  <4.3.2.7.2.20000821010534.02f2af00@mail.Go2France.com>
In-Reply-To: <200008202249.e7KMnpj00746@fedde.littleton.co.us>
References:  <4.3.2.7.2.20000820223714.02ee8f00@mail.Go2France.com>

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>On Sun, 20 Aug 2000 22:54:23 +0200  Len Conrad wrote:
>  +------------------
>  | On 4 of the machines all, is cool. But on 2 machines, messages gives me:
>  |
>  | Aug 20 23:35:06 ns2 xntpd[299]: xntpd version=3.4e (beta multicast);
>  | Tue Dec 28 21:19:34 GMT 1999 (1)
>  | Aug 20 23:35:06 ns2 xntpd[299]: tickadj = 5, tick = 10000, 
> tvu_maxslew = 495
>  | Aug 20 23:35:06 ns2 xntpd[299]: using xntpd phase-lock loop
>  | Aug 20 23:39:56 ns2 xntpd[299]: time error -3962.233950 is way too
>  | large (set clock manually)
>  |
>  | .. but the log line timestamp of these two is essentially already "on
>  | the money", as are the 4 machines that run xntpd just fine.
>  |
>  | On these two machines, the ntpd won't unloads (can't see it "ps aux |
>  | grep ntp").
>  |
>  | What's going on?
>  +------------------
>
>Are these syslog lines collected on the ns2 machine?

yes, from the /var/log/messages file

>Syslog uses the loghub machine time stamp rather than the origionator.
>Also it could have something to do with CMOS clock setting

something like what, if CMOS was totally wrong or dead battery?

>and the existance or absence of /etc/wall_cmos_clock.

what's wall_cmos_clock ?

Len


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