ntpdate once an hour/half hour in cron?, or grep for the message in a loop and ntpdate if it sees the message?
but that's just the hacker in me ... On 13 July 2011 02:56, Christopher Chan <christopher.c...@bradbury.edu.hk> wrote: > On Wednesday, July 13, 2011 09:54 AM, Christopher Chan wrote: >> >> On Wednesday, July 13, 2011 06:52 AM, Christopher Chan wrote: >>> >>> On Wednesday, July 13, 2011 03:51 AM, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Sigh... >>>>> >>>>> ntpdate -u 192.168.9.1 >>>>> 10 Jul 09:01:15 ntpdate[29929]: step time server 192.168.9.1 offset >>>>> 3317.946738 sec >>>> >>>> IIRC ntpd won't adjust the time if the difference is too big, measured >>>> between the system clock, inherited from the hardware clock, and the >>>> ntp servers. I've see this on VMs a few times on Linux - if the guest >>>> OS doesn't have a time source compatible, it'll usually drift a lot, >>>> possibly enough to make ntpd give up. But then, since you're running >>>> on iron (or silicon or something), adjusting the time on bootup with >>>> ntpdate should suffice :) >>>> >>> >>> I have switched from broadcastclient to specifying 5 time servers. That >>> seems to have got it to behave properly. >>> >> >> Spoke too soon...it's off by nine minutes after 12 hours.... >> > > Jul 13 07:42:44 bradsuper1 ntpd[414]: [ID 702911 daemon.notice] frequency > error 512 PPM exceeds tolerance 500 PPM > Jul 13 08:02:27 bradsuper1 ntpd[414]: [ID 702911 daemon.notice] frequency > error 512 PPM exceeds tolerance 500 PPM > > What causes this?!?! The only thing that has changed is the fact we are in > the summer break and we have blooming renovators/builders coming in but they > don't start at 7:42am. > > _______________________________________________ > OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list > OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss