You might want to check out the following ntp.conf options depending on your network link - in particular the panic 0 option or the commandline version '-g'
tinker panic 0 huffpuff 7200 The huffpuff value seems to help on a loaded broadband connection, and I found it a must on a modem. The panic value stops ntp from dropping out when too great a difference occurs between network and local time (your original problem I think) - it will step, whereas without it it will run, but refuse to update the time, or in some cases die. BillK On Tue, 2006-06-13 at 22:16 -0400, John J. Foster wrote: > On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 06:39:52AM -0400, John J. Foster wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 02:52:59PM -0400, John J. Foster wrote: > > > On Mon, 12 Jun 2006, Uwe Thiem wrote: ... > > Well, it's been running fine all day long. I think I'll kill the > commandline ntpd and restart /etc/init.d/ntpd. And watch it for a week > or so. > > Thanks again, > festus -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
