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monitoring NTP



On Jul 2, 2009, at 8:11 PM, Tom Metro wrote:
> ntpdate, then restart ntpd. I thought ntpd stepped the time if there  
> was
> a large delta. (According to /etc/default/ntp the -g option is being
> specified, which is supposed to permit nptd to make large steps when
> initially started.)


-g is the sanity check.  If the system time is more than -g's value  
off (default 1000 seconds) then ntpd says "see ya!" and quits.   
Setting it to 0 should prevent ntpd from quitting.  running ntpdate as  
you did before restarting ntpd accomplishes the same thing but does it  
much faster.  ntpdate sets the time now whereas ntpd with a large  
clock skew will take a while to sync up.

--Rich P.







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