David Woolley wrote: > 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.
I'm not sure what you are trying to say here! As I read the above text, it does not seriously disagree with what I wrote. _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
