On 2012-02-11, Dave Hart <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
??? a) that -g is typically used at startup and was introduced in order to handle wildly out of sync clocks at starup. I suspect that the fact that -g will also works if startup has been OK, but 17 days into running it suddenly finds the clock out by 5 days is a bug in the implimentation of -g. And my recollection seems to have been dead on. > > Cheers, > Dave Hart _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions
