On 2008-04-12, Richard B. Gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> BTW, if you didn't wait at least 30 minutes between starting ntpd and 
> getting the ntpq banner, you wasted your time!

Nonsense.

After only two polls you can see if your ntpd is able to contact the
remote time servers. You don't need to wait 30 minutes for that.

As ntpd continues to poll you can see if a step was required or if
the clock is being steered in the right direction .

> Ntpd generally requires about that much time to figure out exactly
> what time it is and to beat your clock into submission.

That's not the issue here.

-- 
Steve Kostecke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
NTP Public Services Project - http://support.ntp.org/

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