Clock drift is a known problem the the 68k Macs under *n*x, so I thought installing the NTP daemon would solve the problem. Unfortunately this doesn't seem to be the case with default settings. Is there any type of option I can use with ntpd, or other trick I can do, to get ntpd to maintain the correct date on my SE/30? It seems to do fine as long as there's no load on the machine, but whenever I start a fairly intensive task (4 hour software compile) the clock slips beyond the "sanity threshold" of ntpd, and the daemon dies.
If you run ntp as a server, you can't update the time via ntpdate on that machine. I found you have to stop the server, update the time, then start the server back up.
I'm running in client mode. (Unless I misunderstood the documentation.) I just want to keep the time synced.
You mean I cannot keep other machines on my network synced from this one? Then how do tier 2 servers sync with tier 1 and still allow others to sync from them?
I run this cron job weekly on my ntp sever machine
/etc/rc.d/init.d/ntpd stop /usr/sbin/ntpdate -b ntp-2.cso.uiuc.edu /sbin/hwclock --systohc /etc/rc.d/init.d/ntpd start
Notice I sync the hardware clock after I set the time. ntpd keeps the software clock in sync, but not the hardware clock.
I vaguely remember that the clock was one of the thinks that didn't work that well with Linux on 68k.
I will try that. Thanks. Though I'd probably have to run it daily to keep within a half hour or so. :P
Tim
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