From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Wed Jun 5 21:44:24 2019 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7261315B9FC5 for ; Wed, 5 Jun 2019 21:44:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jjohnstone.nospamfreebsd@tridentusa.com) Received: from mail.tridentusa.com (mail.tridentusa.com [96.225.19.3]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7CF036E3D2 for ; Wed, 5 Jun 2019 21:44:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jjohnstone.nospamfreebsd@tridentusa.com) Received: (qmail 74633 invoked from network); 5 Jun 2019 21:44:21 -0000 Received: from mail.tridentusa.com (172.16.0.32) de/crypted with TLSv1: DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA [256/256] DN=none by smtprelay.tridentusa.com with ESMTPS; 5 Jun 2019 21:44:21 -0000 Received: (qmail 61984 invoked from network); 5 Jun 2019 17:44:21 -0400 Received: from johnstone (HELO ?192.168.249.6?) (jjohnstone@tridentusa.com@192.168.249.6) by mail.tridentusa.com with SMTP; 5 Jun 2019 17:44:21 -0400 Subject: Re: ntpd configutration -- a small suggestion from the peanut gallery To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <52802.1559769936@segfault.tristatelogic.com> From: John Johnstone Message-ID: <573da67f-6b21-cdcc-351c-b0ff4026982b@tridentusa.com> Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2019 17:44:21 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.11; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <52802.1559769936@segfault.tristatelogic.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 7CF036E3D2 X-Spamd-Bar: ----- Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; spf=pass (mx1.freebsd.org: domain of jjohnstone.nospamfreebsd@tridentusa.com designates 96.225.19.3 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=jjohnstone.nospamfreebsd@tridentusa.com X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-5.91 / 15.00]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-1.00)[-1.000,0]; RCVD_COUNT_FIVE(0.00)[5]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; R_SPF_ALLOW(-0.20)[+mx]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_ALL(0.00)[]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; TO_DN_NONE(0.00)[]; DMARC_NA(0.00)[tridentusa.com]; RCPT_COUNT_ONE(0.00)[1]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-1.00)[-1.000,0]; RCVD_TLS_LAST(0.00)[]; MX_GOOD(-0.01)[cached: mail1.tridentusa.com]; NEURAL_HAM_SHORT(-0.97)[-0.968,0]; IP_SCORE(-2.63)[ip: (-9.53), ipnet: 96.225.0.0/17(-4.77), asn: 701(1.23), country: US(-0.06)]; FROM_EQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[]; R_DKIM_NA(0.00)[]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+]; ASN(0.00)[asn:701, ipnet:96.225.0.0/17, country:US]; MID_RHS_MATCH_FROM(0.00)[] X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 05 Jun 2019 21:44:24 -0000 On 6/5/19 5:25 PM, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: > > In message , > doug@fledge.watson.org wrote: > >>> Did I just miss those ntpd death messages somehow? > So either I need new glasses or else that part underlined above is just plain > wrong. Because even after my ntpd died several times, I was unable to find > -any- message telling me that ntpd had chosen suicide, let alone what the > reasons for that might have been. At least not in /var/log/messages. The reason > ntpd assumes something must be terribly wrong and the only reliable > action is for the operator to intervene and set the clock by hand. is just further down in the man page. By default NTP will only adjust time gradually. So if the time discrepancy is too large it will take a really long time for the adjustment to complete. It certainly would be better though if messages were produced when it exits. - John J.