Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 16:26:02 -0400 From: "Bob Johnson" <fbsdlists@gmail.com> To: "Jean-Paul Natola" <jnatola@familycareintl.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: TIME loss Message-ID: <54db43990607131326p28841f4ej76384a2d56535cb3@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <3A85D7EF44E1C744BF6434691F5659E997546E@www.fcimail.org> References: <3A85D7EF44E1C744BF6434691F5659E997546E@www.fcimail.org>
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On 7/13/06, Jean-Paul Natola <jnatola@familycareintl.org> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I have been trying to figure this one out for a couple of days, but no can > do. > > My clock on my bsd box currently 19 minutes ahead of the real world. > > I have it set to query my w2k box as the time server. > > I do have the ntpd running, > > So I am not sure how to adjust I tried this > > milter# ntpdate -q 192.168.1.3 > Looking for host 192.168.1.3 and service ntp > host found : fci2003.fci > server 192.168.1.3, stratum 2, offset -1120.152027, delay 0.03365 > 13 Jul 14:30:19 ntpdate[79951]: step time server 192.168.1.3 offset > -1120.152027 sec > > But the longer the machine stays up (142 days ) the more time the clock > loses, > > Aside from rebooting , is there any way to fix this? > > It doesn't really make sense to run ntpdate if ntpd is already running. ntpdate runs once, sets the clock, and then exists. ntpd runs continuously and keeps the clock synchronized to the server, but you must have the config file set up correctly. Do you have a line like server 192.168.1.3 in /etc/ntp.conf? You might also want to make sure rc.conf includes: ntpd_enable="YES" ntpd_flags="-g -p /var/run/ntpd.pid" The -g option lets it do a single large correction when it first starts, similar to ntpdate. If ntpd is running, then ntpq -p will tell you what peers it thinks it is trying to synchronize to, and what the status is. If it shows an asterisk (*) next to one of the peers, it is synchronized to that one. In your case, it will be a list of one. It takes a few minutes to synch after first starting up.
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