[CentOS] ntp will not drift to correct time

2009-08-12 Thread Tom Brown
Hi On 5.3 i have a situation where some boxes have been 3 or 4 seconds out and restarting ntpd has fixed the issue. What i dont understand is why the clocks did not drift to the correct time when the config seems correct in that restarting ntp did correct the time. Is there something

Re: [CentOS] ntp will not drift to correct time

2009-08-12 Thread Alan Sparks
Tom Brown wrote: Hi On 5.3 i have a situation where some boxes have been 3 or 4 seconds out and restarting ntpd has fixed the issue. What i dont understand is why the clocks did not drift to the correct time when the config seems correct in that restarting ntp did correct the time. Is

Re: [CentOS] ntp will not drift to correct time

2009-08-12 Thread Tom Brown
Is the directory /var/lib/ntp present, and with write permissions for the 'ntp' user? Does the drift file exist? Does ntpd ever lock in? What do you see in 'ntpq -p' over time? Are these heavily-loaded boxes, or boxes with wildly-varying loads? $ ll /var/lib/ntp total 4 -rw-r--r-- 1

Re: [CentOS] ntp will not drift to correct time

2009-08-12 Thread David G . Miller
Tom Brown t...@... writes: Hi On 5.3 i have a situation where some boxes have been 3 or 4 seconds out and restarting ntpd has fixed the issue. What i dont understand is why the clocks did not drift to the correct time when the config seems correct in that restarting ntp did correct