From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 7 7:44:47 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dire.bris.ac.uk (dire.bris.ac.uk [137.222.10.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDA0837B422 for ; Sun, 7 Apr 2002 07:44:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk by dire.bris.ac.uk with SMTP-PRIV with ESMTP; Sun, 7 Apr 2002 15:44:16 +0100 Received: from cmjg (helo=localhost) by mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk with local-esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 16uDrp-0005Ox-00; Sun, 07 Apr 2002 15:42:05 +0100 Date: Sun, 7 Apr 2002 15:42:05 +0100 (BST) From: Jan Grant X-X-Sender: cmjg@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk To: Casey Scott Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: ntpd In-Reply-To: <000701c1dd75$f3b1c330$0601a8c0@nixfusion.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 6 Apr 2002, Casey Scott wrote: > The following messages log entries are concerning me. I don't know if I > should interpret it as the system isn't updating it's time properly, or it's > time keeping mechanism is bad. ... > Isn't the system suppose to adjust it's time after the ntp query > provides the correct time? Why does it only seem to be getting better a > second or so at a time? I would appreciate any advice. ntpd makes its changes gently; if your hardware clock is particularly poor, you might want to consider running ntpdate after boot, then ntpd. -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 RFC822 jan.grant@bris.ac.uk Semantic rules, OK? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message