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From: Thanasis <thanasis@××××××××××.org>
To: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
Cc: "gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org >> gentoo-user List" <gentoo-user@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Latest unstable ntp not generating ntp.drift file.
Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2011 07:47:18
Message-Id: 4D2421A9.3020307@asyr.hopto.org
1 on 01/05/2011 09:39 AM Dale wrote the following:
2 > Thanasis wrote:
3 >> date 0101010101&& /etc/init.d/ntpd restart&& date
4 >
5 > I got this:
6 >
7 > Jan 1 01:05:16 localhost ntpd[5709]: time correction of 315880203
8 > seconds exceeds sanity limit (1000); set clock manually to the correct
9 > UTC time.
10 >
11 > I was pretty sure it would exceed its adjustment but thought it worth
12 > a try. At least it complains. lol
13 >
14 > Dale
15 >
16 > :-) :-)
17 >
18 >
19 Have you set "-s" in its startup options and does directory /var/empty
20 exist?
21
22 Here is my /etc/conf.d/ntpd :
23
24 # /etc/conf.d/ntpd: config file for openntpd's ntpd
25
26 NTPD_HOME=/var/empty
27
28 # See ntpd(8) man page ... some popular options:
29 # -s Set the time immediately at startup
30 NTPD_OPTS="-s"