Richard B. Gilbert wrote: > > ISTR that "-g" unconditionally sets the clock to whatever time is > supplied by the source(s)! It should bring your clock to within a few > milliseconds of whatever source(s) was/were used. This is a ONCE only > setting. Thereafter, less drastic methods are used and the size of any > correction is subject to "sanity checking". > > Not what the documentation (4.2.4p4) says. It only says that it removes the 1000 second limit.
> -g > Normally, ntpd exits with a message to the system log if the > offset exceeds the panic threshold, which is 1000 s by default. > This option allows the time to be set to any value without > restriction; however, this can happen only once. If the > threshold is exceeded after that, ntpd will exit with a message > to the system log. This option can be used with the -q and -x > options. See the tinker command for other options. _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
