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)