Hello Gavin, nothing in /var/log/*. The only messages I'm getting in /var/log/nto.log (which is where I'm pointing all ntpd log files to) are the ones it generates on shutdown, and that's me shutting it down testing different config options.
The computer is a Compaq Presario SR1500AN. Apparently there's nothing weird in it (IDE hard disk, no RAID). Dunno, I never saw that before. I'm watching the debug logs for it (ntpd -D 3), and there's nothing showing any apparent error. Thanks anyway. I'll keep looking. On 5/3/06, Gavin Carr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi Julio, On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 02:23:42PM +1000, Julio Cesar Ody wrote: > But in this machine, no matter how much I want, this is what I get: > > > # ntpq -p > remote refid st t when poll reach delay offset > jitter > ============================================================================== > hostname 220.233.180.218 3 u 23 64 377 0.169 -756185 > 80237.9 Is there anything relevant in your ntp.log file? Also check /var/log/messages (or whatever gentoo uses for daemon/kernel messages), particularly for for anything about 'ntp', 'clock', 'freq', or 'tick'. I imagine you'll at least have ntpd messages about frequency errors exceeding the standard tolerances. It's quite possibly a hardware issue - maybe a motherboard with a bios issue that is losing ticks, or some other hardware (I've seen it with some hardware raid cards) screwing up the clock ticks somehow. Do you have any interesting hardware in that box? Cheers, Gavin -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
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