Re: [gentoo-user] Latest unstable ntp not generating ntp.drift file.

[William Kenworthy]

Is the clock almost in sync? - if its too far out ntp will silently fail
to sync (by design - large scale time steps can be destructive for
heavily active databases for instance)

Check out the -g option to ntpd in 'man ntpd'

or 'tinker panic 0' in ntp.conf

Also, has ntp.conf specified a writable frift file in a directory that
exists?

ntp can be VERY complex when it doesnt "just work" :)

BillK



On Mon, 2011-01-03 at 19:31 -0600, Dale wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I been watching my clock here for a while.  On my old rig, ntp kept the
> clock set very, very well.  This rig seems to have issues.  I tried the
> stable version of ntp and it just seems to keep resetting the time but
> not adjusting the drift file at all.  I even adjusted manually once and
> my entry was better than the one it made.
>
> I then decided to try the latest unstable ntp to see if maybe it would
> work better.  I emerged ntp, renamed the drift file and started the
> service.  That was several hours ago and it has yet to even create the
> drift file.  It also puts nothing in the log file except that it started
> and is using ports and the normal stuff.  No syncing or anything like
> the older version.
>
> Also, I copied the ntp.conf file over from the old rig.  I would think
> they would work pretty much the same.  Same program, same config and
> hopefully same results.
>
> First version tried:  net-misc/ntp-4.2.4_p7-r1
> Current unstable version:  net-misc/ntp-4.2.6_p2-r1
>
> When I looked at the ntp website, it said it should sync much faster
> than the old one.  Basically it is minutes instead of hours.  So far
> this is not the case.
>
> Anybody else ran into this?  Am I missing something that is different on
> a 64 bit rig?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Dale
>
> :-)  :-)
>

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