[ntp:questions] Re: New to NTPD

Brian Inglis Brian.Inglis at SystematicSW.Invalid
Tue May 9 21:41:21 UTC 2006


On Tue, 09 May 2006 15:41:45 GMT in comp.protocols.time.ntp, Ted
Gervais <ve1drg at av.eastlink.ca> wrote:

>On Tue, 9 May 2006, Heiko Gerstung wrote:
>
>> Hi, Ted:
>>
>> Ted Gervais wrote:
>>> Well I finally am moving away from netdate and have ntpd installed and
>>> running.
>>> I brought it up using ntpd -g,  and hope that is ok.
>>>
>>> Also I have no idea that it is doing anthing?   How do I know that it is
>>> running.
>>> The drift file has only one entry in it, and that is all zeros..
>>>
>>> Is there some way that I can watch what is happening like the way I watch
>>> log files using 'tail -f messages'  ??
>>>
>>> I have all the logfile stuff turned on so I can read any and all stuff that
>>> is happening and  yet while that says a few things I at this point don't
>>> know that it is doing anything with the system time.
>>>
>>> I am running linux (slackware 10.2)..
>>
>> Maybe you can try it with "ntpq -p" which shows you all configured time
>> references (the "server" or "peer" lines in /etc/ntp.conf). If you want,
>> you can run it periodically : "watch -n 1 ntpq -p"
>
>OK on the 'watch' line. Here is what that gives me"
>
>Every 1.0s: ntpq -p                                     Tue May  9 
>12:39:45 2006
>      remote           refid      st t when poll reach   delay   offset 
>jitter
>==============================================================================
>*LOCAL(0)        73.78.73.84      5 l   58   64  377    0.000    0.000 
>0.001
>  time-b.nist.gov .RSTR.          16 u    -   64    0    0.000    0.000 
>4000.00
>  time-b.nist.gov .RSTR.          16 u    -   64    0    0.000    0.000 
>4000.00
>  time-A.timefreq .RSTR.          16 u    -   64    0    0.000    0.000 
>4000.00
>  time.nist.gov   .RSTR.          16 u    -  128    0    0.000    0.000 
>4000.00

Use the Canadian pool servers as in http://www.pool.ntp.org/zone/ca

"Canada - ca.pool.ntp.org

There are 24 active servers in this zone.

We can use more servers in this country. If you have a server with a
static IP, please consider joining the pool!

To use this pool zone, add the following to your ntp.conf file:

   server 0.ca.pool.ntp.org
   server 1.ca.pool.ntp.org
   server 2.ca.pool.ntp.org"

OR these public servers:

	ntp1.cmc.ec.gc.ca
	ntp2.cmc.ec.gc.ca
	time.nrc.ca
	time.chu.nrc.ca
	timelord.uregina.ca

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Thanks. Take care, Brian Inglis 	Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Brian.Inglis at CSi.com 	(Brian[dot]Inglis{at}SystematicSW[dot]ab[dot]ca)
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