on a current snapshot from last week "ntpd -s" will successfully synchronize the clock at once, but 8 hours off the real time. 4.0-release and older snapshots behave as expected. Is there some new 'feature' I need to learn about?
# uname -a OpenBSD arwen.dmz.ini.uzh.ch 4.0 GENERIC#1350 i386 # grep ntpd /var/log/daemon Jan 26 01:12:50 arwen ntpd[18084]: ntp engine ready Jan 26 01:14:52 arwen ntpd[30119]: peer 1x0.xx.x.xx now valid Jan 26 01:15:41 arwen ntpd[14197]: adjusting local clock by 0.157485s Jan 26 01:19:25 arwen ntpd[30119]: clock is now synced # date Fri Jan 26 01:27:33 MST 2007 (on other synchronized machines and on my wrist the time is 09:27:33) Thanks, -- Stephan A. Rickauer ----------------------------------------------------------- Institute of Neuroinformatics Tel +41 44 635 30 50 University / ETH Zurich Sec +41 44 635 30 52 Winterthurerstrasse 190 Fax +41 44 635 30 53 CH-8057 Zurich Web www.ini.unizh.ch RSA public key: https://www.ini.uzh.ch/~stephan/pubkey.asc -----------------------------------------------------------
