In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
 Spoon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hal Murray wrote:
> 
> > Spoon wrote:
> > 
> >> In my situation, I don't care what time it is, but my clock needs
> >> to tick at the correct rate.
> > 
> > How accurate do you need it?
> > 
> > You can get "pretty close" if you figure out what the drift
> > should be and use that.
> > 
> > You can get that two ways.
> > 
> > One is to let ntpd run while connected to the outside world.
> > It will leave the answer in log files and /var/ntp/drift or
> > wherever.
> 
> The problem with that solution is that the frequency offset of the 
> system clock changes by a huge amount every time the system reboots.
> 
> cf. thread titled "Clock skew changes drastically between reboots"

Perhaps this was established before, but are the systems having the big 
jump over a reboot all equipped with a drifts file?  If not, NTP must 
relearn the local clock drift rate every time.  I would verify the 
existence of the drifts file directly, not depending on configuration 
claims.

Joe Gwinn

_______________________________________________
questions mailing list
[email protected]
https://lists.ntp.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/questions

Reply via email to