I’ve heard that some people have a cron job that does something to ntpd nightly, maybe drop-kicks it. We’ve been putting up with its idiosyncrasies, but now that you mention it, I should locate such a script and install it on the one server that’s always off time and see if that helps. -Carl
On Sep 18, 2014, at 2:30 PM, LuKreme <krem...@kreme.com> wrote: > On 18 Sep 2014, at 15:25 , Carl Hoefs <newsli...@autonomy.caltech.edu> wrote: >> Annoying, this bug has been around since the OS X 10.0 days. We have some >> systems (one is a server on OSXS) for which the “automatic” time updates >> never happen unless the Prefs panel is launched. Then it quickly updates. >> Behaves like it’s quantum: it updates only when observed to do so. > > Interesting. > > Do you live with it, login every now and again, or kick ntpd in the ass from > the command line? > > -- > 'A man like that could inspire a handful of broken men to conquer a > country.' 'Fine. Just so long as he does it on his day off.' > > _______________________________________________ > MacOSX-talk mailing list > MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com > http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
