I don't know which distribution you are using but on Fedora I do the following: 1. Setup decent NTP servers in ntp.conf - I set the following server 0.fedora.pool.ntp.org server 1.fedora.pool.ntp.org server 2.fedora.pool.ntp.org
2. Run ntpdate at startup - this basically runs with the following OPTIONS="-U ntp -s -b" This just does a one time synchronization at startup 3. Run ntpd - this will make sure your time doesn't drift once it has been synchronized Note: Running ntpd as is wont help especially if you are drifting too much - I don't remember the threshold but beyond a certain point ntpd wont try to correct the time. - Mithun ----- Original Message ---- From: Subhanjan Ghosh <subhanjan.ghosh2...@gmail.com> To: The Linux-Delhi mailing list <ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org> Sent: Saturday, September 19, 2009 11:25:35 AM Subject: Re: [ilugd] ntp sync to server bt still drift is there ntpd is running ntpq -p is showing my server with the drift. On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 9:18 AM, Mehul Ved <mehul.n....@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 9:00 PM, Subhanjan Ghosh > <subhanjan.ghosh2...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Facing one problem my server is synced to ntp server but every 2 days > there > > is a drift of 5 seconds or so then have to manually sync with ntpdate > > command. > > > > Any permanent fix as in Redhat Kbase it said that not recommended to put > > ntpdate in cron. > > Isn't ntpd running? It should do that. > > _______________________________________________ > ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org > http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd > Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi > http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/ > _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/ _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
