On Monday 14 February 2005 12:57, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > ntpd exits quite quietly if the difference between the peer and the local > time are too great. > I also think the default log file specified in /etc/ntpd.conf is > /var/log/ntpd.log, not messages. > > The message when that happens looks something like this: > > 11 Feb 17:49:40 ntpd[11432]: frequency initialized -33.396 PPM from > /var/lib/ntp/ntp.drift > 11 Feb 17:53:17 ntpd[11432]: synchronized to 192.168.1.72, stratum 1 > 11 Feb 17:53:17 ntpd[11432]: time correction of -3601 seconds exceeds > sanity limit (1000); set clock manually to the correct UTC time.
If you add -g to NTPD_OPTS in /etc/conf.d/ntpd then ntpd doesn't exit if difference between the time server and the local time is too much.
