[ntp:questions] Badly drifting system time

Uwe Klein uwe_klein_habertwedt at t-online.de
Sun Dec 3 12:54:20 UTC 2006


yorhel at gmail.com wrote:
> I have used the NTP pool project for quite some time on several servers
> now, and I decided I wanted to help the project by donating an NTP
> server too. The problem is though, that my server has a badly drifting
> system time (it's about 10-15 ms/s too fast). I temporarily "fixed"
> that by running ntpdate as an hourly cron-job. But to run an NTP server
> I obviously need something better than that.
> 
> I have tried to play around with ntpd, but it didn't want to correct my
> system time. A few hours after running ntpdate and starting ntpd, the
> system time has drifted away again.
> 'ntpq -p' tells me all the servers I've configured are rejected, and
> the offset keeps growing from -100 (at ntpd startup) to -47000 (about
> an hour after ntp startup)
> 
> Is it possible to correct the system time somehow (preferably using
> ntpd) so I can run an accurate ntp server?
> 
What hardware platform and OS are you running on?
Nvidia Chipset? Linux?

uwe




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