On Wed, 4 Feb 2009 13:38:11 +0000, Stroller wrote: > So when I found the clock to be a week out of date I checked that ntpd > appeared to be running (it was) and restarted it. The date remained > the same. Stopping ntpd & starting ntp-client corrected the date > immediately.
ntpd will not change the time if the difference is too large, the man page gives the limit. You need to run both at boot; ntp-client sets the time immediately, no matter what the skew, then ntpd keeps the clock in time. -- Neil Bothwick Nymphomania-- an illness you hear about but never encounter.
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