On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 01:03, unruh <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2012-02-09, bombjack <[email protected]> wrote: >> What happens if I change the time on the server, lets say 5 years >> forward? Will the client sync to the server? and If so, how? big leap? >> small steps? Will the flag "-g" affect how the client reacts to this >> changes? > > No. If ntp finds the time out by >128ms, it steps the clock. If it finds > it out by 1000(?) sec it says "Something is horribly wrong here" and > abandons ship. (ntpd exits).
Don't let facts get in the way of your recollections, I suppose. Quoting myself from this very thread: "-g allows a single step exceeding the panic threshold, not necessarily at startup." The panic threshold defaults to 1000 s. But don't take my word for it -- see the docs. Cheers, Dave Hart _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions
