[gentoo-user] Re: Latest unstable ntp not generating ntp.drift file.

2011-01-06 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Thursday 06 January 2011, Dale wrote: Francesco Talamona wrote: On Wednesday 05 January 2011, Dale wrote: Now on my old system, it would adjust the drift file and the adjustments would get smaller and smaller. On the new rig, as you can see it stays about the same. I would like it

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Latest unstable ntp not generating ntp.drift file.

2011-01-06 Thread Dale
Francesco Talamona wrote: On Thursday 06 January 2011, Dale wrote: Francesco Talamona wrote: On Wednesday 05 January 2011, Dale wrote: Now on my old system, it would adjust the drift file and the adjustments would get smaller and smaller. On the new rig, as you can see it

[gentoo-user] Re: Latest unstable ntp not generating ntp.drift file.

2011-01-06 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Thursday 06 January 2011, Dale wrote: I deleted the /etc/adjtime but it has not been recreated. What creates this file? I deleted it a couple days ago and nothing has brought it back yet. /sbin/hwclock --systohc does. What happens in the long run if you don't run any synchronization

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Latest unstable ntp not generating ntp.drift file.

2011-01-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 06 Jan 2011 11:31:30 -0600, Dale wrote: Well, I tried openntp for a good while last night and it was worse than ntp. It was adjusting the clock by something like 20 seconds at a time. Even ntp wasn't that bad. ntpd won't shift the clock by too much at a time. If your clock is

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Latest unstable ntp not generating ntp.drift file.

2011-01-06 Thread Jacob Todd
The only thing I have changed with openntp is in /etc/ntpd.conf, I added `listen on *`, maybe a few servers and in /etc/conf.d/ntpd or whatever it's called, I added `-s` to OPTIONS. I've been using that on a server for a year and my laptops for over two. I've had no problems with syncing.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Latest unstable ntp not generating ntp.drift file.

2011-01-06 Thread Thanasis
on 01/06/2011 07:31 PM Dale wrote the following: Well, I tried openntp for a good while last night and it was worse than ntp. It was adjusting the clock by something like 20 seconds at a time. That's probably because you didn't put -s in the start up options in /etc/conf.d/ntpd: # See

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Latest unstable ntp not generating ntp.drift file.

2011-01-06 Thread Dale
Francesco Talamona wrote: On Thursday 06 January 2011, Dale wrote: I deleted the /etc/adjtime but it has not been recreated. What creates this file? I deleted it a couple days ago and nothing has brought it back yet. /sbin/hwclock --systohc does. What happens in the long run if

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Latest unstable ntp not generating ntp.drift file.

2011-01-06 Thread Dale
Jacob Todd wrote: The only thing I have changed with openntp is in /etc/ntpd.conf, I added `listen on *`, maybe a few servers and in /etc/conf.d/ntpd or whatever it's called, I added `-s` to OPTIONS. I've been using that on a server for a year and my laptops for over two. I've had no

[gentoo-user] Re: Latest unstable ntp not generating ntp.drift file.

2011-01-05 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Wednesday 05 January 2011, Dale wrote: Now on my old system, it would adjust the drift file and the adjustments would get smaller and smaller. On the new rig, as you can see it stays about the same. I would like it to get to a point where it doesn't have to sync so often. I read on the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Latest unstable ntp not generating ntp.drift file.

2011-01-05 Thread Dale
Francesco Talamona wrote: On Wednesday 05 January 2011, Dale wrote: Now on my old system, it would adjust the drift file and the adjustments would get smaller and smaller. On the new rig, as you can see it stays about the same. I would like it to get to a point where it doesn't have to

[gentoo-user] Re: Latest unstable ntp not generating ntp.drift file.

2011-01-05 Thread Dale
Hi again, Little update. I tried every version of ntp in the tree including one released in the past few days that was supposed to have some more bug fixes. No joy. Same thing in the log file and ntp.drift. It just would not adjust the clock like it should and did on my old rig. I