I've had my pfsense box up and running for 124 days straight (woo hoo) but
back in July, the NTPD log page reported this:
>Jul 26 06:29:02 ntpd[588]: Terminating
>Jul 26 06:29:02 ntpd[588]: dispatch_imsg in main: pipe closed
There was nothing new since those reports. I assumed that the whole time
since then that it had been keeping my clock up to date. Much to my surprise
I discovered on November 4th that the clock on my pfsense box had had fallen
behind by over 20 minutes. So I checked the running processes by running "ps
auxc", and I noticed that NTPD was no longer running.
So I went to System -> General removed all the time servers (CTRL+X) and
then added them again (CTRL+V), hit "save" and then checked the NTPD log
page again.
I was happy to find this:
>Nov 4 15:24:09 ntpd[51443]: set local clock to Sun Nov 4 15:24:09 PST 2007
(offset 1229.461968s)
So is this a bug? Or does NTPD exit when it has tried long enough to set the
time?(IIRC, the chipset in this machine has a well-documented bug where the
clock always loses time)
