I've inherited a RHEL 5 server that isn't running ntp and whose clock is about 30 minutes fast. What I would like to do is start ntpd & have it gradually correct the clock. I don't care how long it takes--it's been running this way for months. The server runs an email application that may be sensitive to a large backward jump in the clock, and leaving the server down for a half hour isn't a good option.
I don't know ntp very well, but from reading it appeared to me that if I put "tinker panic 0" in ntp.conf and started ntp with the -x option it would do what I want. However, on a test server the correction occurred all at once. Is there a way to accomplish what I want? Richard Heritage Lead System Software Engineer IT @ Johns Hopkins _______________________________________________ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions
