-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Saturday 2006-12-16 at 01:37 -0900, John Andersen wrote:
I have to run "rcntp restart" every 10 minutes to keep it somehow adjusted...
That's silly. Just run the daemon, that's what its for.
man ntpd
Thats not silly, running ntpd every 10 minutes is silly. Clearly there is a problem with his machine. I don't think NTPD is really intended for this situation.
Sigh...
Nobody suggested he run nptd every ten minutes. Its a daemon. (that's why it has a d on the end of the name). It runs continuously.
Its intended for PRECISELY this sort of thing.
But within limits. After setting the clock once, the clock is running so fast that ntpd can't cope. It will try to slew the clock back, but it does so slowly. Soon the time will be out of range, and ntpd will stop trying because it has already gone beyond its sanity limit. Thus the user restarts it. "rcntp restart" works in this situation because it sets the clock at the start even if the jump is big: no sanity checks during service start. It would be better to use "rcntp ntptimeset" as a cron job every 5 or 10 minutes in this situation as a hack till the real problem can be found. Something in the kernel, I suppose. It should go to bugzilla, I think. The trick I often say of removing the "/etc/adjtime" will not work this time, because the problem arises after the system is running and having adjusted the time properly, I understand. Try erasing ntpd adjustments, not sure exactly which ATM. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFFg/5ZtTMYHG2NR9URAtzFAJ9xEaHNfcWviDluKOjFTts9HkdufwCeIRYA E3ItxctNJ61Itl53CASFhZ8= =aO1W -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org