Kay, If you use iburst in your config files and have a "good" value in the ntp.drift file, ntpd should sync up and be ready to go in about 11 seconds. Please see: https://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Support/ConfiguringNTP and https://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Support/StartingNTP -- Harlan Stenn <stenn at ntp.org> http://ntpforum.isc.org - be a member!