[ntp:questions] Re: NTP stepping issue

[Robert Rati]

Let me test for understanding here, as I've gotten a number of replies 
to my question.  While it is possible to configure the NTP client daemon 
to step regardless of the time difference (as I have done), it is not 
recommended to do so.  In my testing, I saw the client daemon slew to 
the correct time but then it continued slewing past the correct time. 
Is this a bug?  Once it slews to the correct time provided by the 
servers, the client should remain synchronized, right?

Is there another way to solve the problem I laid out? (Once daemon is 
running, always step no matter what the time difference and eventually 
stay synchronized with the time servers)

Rob

David Woolley wrote:
> In article <416CA8D9.2050803 at udel.edu>, David L. Mills <mills at udel.edu> wrote:
> 
> 
>>No, I did intend a small nonzero value. If I understood the question 
> 
> 
> This reply doesn't make sense.  It might have made a little more sense
> if it weren't top posted, so I could work out which statement you 
> were referring to, but even if we assume it is the tinker command 
> parameters, the original article:
> 
> 1) had no mention of any value for tinker step;
> 
> 2) only mentioned tinkering a parameter to exactly zero;
> 
> 3) didn't mention that you had made any prior suggestion.
> 
> Setting step to a very small value would effectively force ntpd into
> permanent frequency mode, stepping the time and frequency every  20 
> or so minutes.
> 
> 
>>correctly, the wish was to step the clock no matter what the offset. I 
>>wouldn't recommend that, but it can be done.
> 
> 
> The original article said that stepping was absolutely unacceptable after
> any initialisation step.
> 
> David Woolley wrote:
> 
> 
>>In article <mailman.23.1097522252.72027.questions at lists.ntp.isc.org>,
>>Robert Rati <Robert.Rati at motorola.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>>tinker panic 0
>>
>>
>>I assume that this is a typo and you meant "tinker step 0".
> 
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