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On 2/12/2006 8:01 PM Harry Putnam wrote: |
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> Drew Tomlinson <drew@××××××××××××××.net> writes: |
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>> The time server is a FreeBSD 6.0 box on my network. My other FreeBSD |
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>> box and two Windows boxes get time from it just fine. Even the Gentoo |
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>> box will set its clock with "ntpd -gq". I am currently using this |
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>> brute force method via a cron job as a temporary workaround. |
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>> Any ideas on what might have caused this recent change in behavior? |
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> It might be that the clock got off by more than ntp is willing to |
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> adjust. As I recall there is a threshold above which ntp will not |
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> go. Hopefully someone more knowledgable might confirm that. |
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Thanks for your reply. If I understand correctly, using the '-g' option |
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will allow a one time clock adjustment of any size. |
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> To cure that sort of problem here I run ntp-client at boot. It sets |
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> the time by any amount I think. So time gets set right on boot then |
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> ntp will keep it in good order. Next boot up ntp-client comes in |
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> ahead of ntp and sets the clock before ntp gets to it, so the |
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> too-large discrepancy never occurs. |
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I have used both 'ntpupdate' (the utility used by ntp-client) and 'ntpd |
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-gq' (ntpd's way to mimic the behavior of ntpupdate) with successful |
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results. However I still can not seem to get ntpd to sync when run in |
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daemon mode. |
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> I seem to recall that the too-large discrepancy is not really that |
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> large. I remember thinking it seemed kind of small to be a problem. |
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1000 seconds according to my understanding of the man page. |
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Anyway, I really appreciate your thoughts. Because this box runs |
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MythTV, time is *VERY* important. Imagine my surprise when I went to |
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watch the first day of the Olympics on to find out that my recordings |
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were off by over an hour and half. :) |
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Thanks, |
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Drew |
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