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From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Latest unstable ntp not generating ntp.drift file.
Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2011 00:06:34
Message-Id: 4D24FB00.1020001@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: Latest unstable ntp not generating ntp.drift file. by Francesco Talamona
1 Francesco Talamona wrote:
2 > On Wednesday 05 January 2011, Dale wrote:
3 >
4 >> Now on my old system, it would adjust the drift file and the
5 >> adjustments would get smaller and smaller. On the new rig, as you
6 >> can see it stays about the same. I would like it to get to a point
7 >> where it doesn't have to sync so often. I read on the website where
8 >> they are needing more servers to help with the load and I don't want
9 >> to be one of the ones putting a load on it.
10 >>
11 > Maybe you copied over /etc/adjtime from the previous machine. I would
12 > try to regenerate it...
13 >
14 > Ciao
15 > Francesco
16 >
17
18 I'm sure I didn't copy that. I copied ntp.conf but that is all. I
19 didn't even notice that one being there. I got to see what purpose that
20 has.
21
22 I may delete it tho and see what happens. It would generate a new one
23 if I restart the service correct?
24
25 Dale
26
27 :-) :-)

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[gentoo-user] Re: Latest unstable ntp not generating ntp.drift file. Francesco Talamona <francesco.talamona@××××.eu>