> On 23 Mar 2015, at 6:20 pm, Brandon Allbery <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 2:17 PM, Chris Jones <[email protected]> 
>> wrote:
>> > The default permissions are likely to be fine:
>> >
>> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 9 Dec 24 02:58 /var/db/ntp.drift
>> 
>> That file hasn't been updated for a while ?
> 
> That would be correct for the Apple ntpd/pacemaker setup. It's created once 
> and not updated thereafter, which is the root of the usual problem --- real 
> ntpd will adjust the drift when it changes, Apple's does not, and new 
> machines will usually see changes in their clock drift as they settle in. And 
> the fix is to remove the out of date one, run Apple ntpd or full ntpd without 
> pacemaker running to let it create a more up to date one, and then restart 
> pacemaker, as I described originally.

So why was mine seemingly updated only yesterday ? I've never done anything 
w.r.t. ntp or pacemaker on this machine, so whatever setting is running it must 
by definition be the default Apple setup ... ?

> 
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