On Apr 13, 2010, at 4:13 PM, Marc Fromm wrote: [ ... ] > The server loses 1 second per minute. > I've been checking it since I manually updated the time and after 2 hours it > is 2 minutes and 1 second behind.
adjtime() used by ntpd and others typically won't correct more than about 2 seconds per hour, so, barring extreme measures, your hardware is too busted to keep reliable time. Sorry. :-/ > ntpq -p produces the following: > remote refid st t when poll reach delay offset jitter > ============================================================================== > 131.107.13.100 .ACTS. 1 u 858 1024 374 4.431 62588.8 21305.0 > *LOCAL(0) .LOCL. 10 l 16 64 377 0.000 0.000 0.001 > > My ntp.conf file is all defaults except for the time server entry on line 13. If you add a server line, then you also need to add a restrict line like: restrict time-nw.nist.gov ...otherwise it lacks permission to change your clock, because of the paranoid "restrict default" line. Regards, -- -Chuck _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions
