On 2010-07-30, Richard Heritage <[email protected]> wrote: > I've inherited a RHEL 5 server that isn't running ntp and whose clock is > about 30 minutes fast. What I would like to do is start ntpd & have it > gradually correct the clock. I don't care how long it takes--it's been > running this way for months. The server runs an email application that may be > sensitive to a large backward jump in the clock, and leaving the server down > for a half hour isn't a good option.
Use chrony rather than ntpd. It will adjust the time much faster ( but no jumps) and does not have the .125s rule. > > I don't know ntp very well, but from reading it appeared to me that if I put > "tinker panic 0" in ntp.conf and started ntp with the -x option it would do > what I want. However, on a test server the correction occurred all at once. > Is there a way to accomplish what I want? > > > Richard Heritage > Lead System Software Engineer > IT @ Johns Hopkins _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions
