-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 On 2014-10-31T14:57:46+0700, "Gerriet M. Denkmann" <[email protected]> wrote: > My computer (OS X 10.10) runs ntpd. > > > ntpd --version > ntpd - NTP daemon program - Ver. 4.2.6 > > It writes the drift value I am interested in to > /private/var/db/ntp.drift at shutdown and one hour after start/ > change of ntp servers. > > But I would like to know the current value of the used drift (just > idle curiosity). > > How? > > Can one force ntpd to write the current value to ntp.drift? Can ntpq > be of help?
This is more of a question for the NTP questions list rather than this pool list, but... The value in the drift file is a snapshot of the clock frequency. You can see the current frequency in the output of "ntpq -c rv", or "ntpq - -c 'rv 0 frequency'" for just the frequency. See http://doc.ntp.org/4.2.6p5/ntpd.html and Clock Discipline Algorithm in the current docs: http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ntp/html/warp.html - -- Kenyon Ralph -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJUU0idAAoJEJj/PvnJuRLV6ScQAIOy+lYcdKxrRkM+4I0MIpIw ck2zXgpONtI/C1fSw02cNQs0Zd3ESpsTt7Z/OFlW7yDLqxmkbGcg/5Lqs7BJ36JO nT+bHLNagrKMwyk9nYDX7hddDaHKh7V+eNlIPhj3IhRzZotG/JyVgDlbA2d19t5E zohdpClFkjqzrSp1SoGCVwkpSVjq1Qq/OsYwAvGXSW5K2h/iwr//mQxhZWlkZFUc ar7Kn6/MxYzPK5uuDu7vW+Zw4h0sr26S+QmNiS75z2jd2zBNpMFQnvZSzExbwuI3 51Pi6/2MdlL7jSKSDPgut2xfHzCOqVsiUt/abYLQHpLm7Zn/7G4hagUbLWuG5dpM JHG7UdoBFep50xmU/4JrtSeegY0EO0EAjmjEDgU4sTfIcxD6RymEsbS5mig+XmxM dgJEJMrL/3m1h4AUvne8MSTe8Pn9gS5ZMydQzx6J6Hd8eikE5wuNXDYZlthjGSJk c0RYHHRH1IkkiQkJhNgNSutGiph+MfvIkV+bti+b/eZyZjUwH29BuLj7OD4i7fRt jQrMcemq11ZosjCDM7Rc+IONzrB7KIbd+2amYnlnZI7jpf4tjVkiEQv1+EPJKOS7 pIQ6FtG3IWnIpiL8sfmb8NSJCc4csLKnUfYjHTzzrJobz1cs0Gxt2tl8J1NQNkSM /j0r0rsk6xJyTL/nVo6Z =i6Cc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ pool mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/pool
