time is always 10 minutes fast!

2006-04-18 Thread Jerome Santos
Hi there I've been trying to sync my system time using ntpd. I followed the FAQ on how to do this but it always seems that my time is 10 minutes fast. my /etc/ntpd.conf: # $OpenBSD: ntpd.conf,v 1.7 2004/07/20 17:38:35 henning Exp $ # sample ntpd configuration file, see ntpd.conf(5) # Addresses

Re: time is always 10 minutes fast!

2006-04-18 Thread Darrin Chandler
On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 11:07:17AM -0400, Jerome Santos wrote: Hi there I've been trying to sync my system time using ntpd. I followed the FAQ on how to do this but it always seems that my time is 10 minutes fast. my /etc/ntpd.conf: # $OpenBSD: ntpd.conf,v 1.7 2004/07/20 17:38:35 henning

Re: time is always 10 minutes fast!

2006-04-18 Thread Darrin Chandler
On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 08:22:55AM -0700, Darrin Chandler wrote: You have both server *and* servers active in your config? Hmm. In any case ntpd should be logging to /var/log/daemon by default. Messages there will be a great clue as to what's going on, hopefully. I'd comment out the single

Re: time is always 10 minutes fast!

2006-04-18 Thread Michael Hernandez
On Apr 18, 2006, at 11:07 AM, Jerome Santos wrote: Any hints or pointers much appreciated!! have you tried running ntpd -s once to set the time immediately? If you don't it will only be corrected gradually. Mike

Re: time is always 10 minutes fast!

2006-04-18 Thread Oliver Peter
Hi, On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 11:07:17AM -0400, Jerome Santos wrote: Hi there I've been trying to sync my system time using ntpd. I followed the FAQ on how to do this but it always seems that my time is 10 minutes fast. my /etc/ntpd.conf: [...] #sync to a single server server

Re: time is always 10 minutes fast!

2006-04-18 Thread Martin Schröder
On 2006-04-18 08:22:55 -0700, Darrin Chandler wrote: I'd comment out the single server commands and go with servers pool.ntp.org and see what happens. As pool.ntp.org will assign you timeservers from all over the world, time quality will not be ideal. You get a bit better result if you use the

Re: time is always 10 minutes fast!

2006-04-18 Thread Jerome Santos
**SOLVED** ( I think) First I killed ntpd, then did ntpd -s north-america.pool.ntp.org and got: set local clock to Tue Apr 18 13:28:59 EST 2006 (offset -3558.915779s) Except I want DST, so that it should show 2 PM. I can't figure out how to set this. On 4/18/06, Jerome Santos [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: time is always 10 minutes fast!

2006-04-18 Thread Joachim Schipper
On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 02:34:30PM -0400, Jerome Santos wrote: **SOLVED** ( I think) First I killed ntpd, then did ntpd -s north-america.pool.ntp.org and got: set local clock to Tue Apr 18 13:28:59 EST 2006 (offset -3558.915779s) Except I want DST, so that it should show 2 PM. I can't

Re: time is always 10 minutes fast!

2006-04-18 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2006/04/18 14:34, Jerome Santos wrote: Except I want DST, so that it should show 2 PM. I can't figure out how to set this. symlink /etc/localtime to /usr/share/zoneinfo/foo.

Re: time is always 10 minutes fast!

2006-04-18 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2006/04/18 19:37, Martin Schrvder wrote: time if you use the country zone (like ch.pool.ntp.org in Switzerland) - for all these zones, you can again use the 0, 1 or ...really crappy for some countries, alas. UK, from a well-connected host: round-trip min/avg/max/std-dev =

Re: time is always 10 minutes fast!

2006-04-18 Thread Otto Moerbeek
On Tue, 18 Apr 2006, Darrin Chandler wrote: You have both server *and* servers active in your config? Hmm. In any case ntpd should be logging to /var/log/daemon by default. Messages there will be a great clue as to what's going on, hopefully. ntpd allowes having multiple server and multiple

Re: time is always 10 minutes fast!

2006-04-18 Thread Jerome Santos
That did it! Thanks a lot!!! Jerome On 4/18/06, Stuart Henderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2006/04/18 14:34, Jerome Santos wrote: Except I want DST, so that it should show 2 PM. I can't figure out how to set this. symlink /etc/localtime to /usr/share/zoneinfo/foo.