[ntp:questions] Why does ntp keep changing my conf file?
Chuck Swiger
cswiger at mac.com
Wed Sep 22 20:36:36 UTC 2010
On Sep 22, 2010, at 1:18 PM, Daniel Havey wrote:
> The bloody thing made it worse! Look at the graph. It was doing just fine at 0.002147 second offset, then I started ntpd and look what it does. This is definitely not very good for a testbed.
What graph? You'll need to mail out a link, since most mailing lists eat attachments (they've got to be fed somehow, I guess)....
Also, ntpq output like the following is helpful for debugging issues:
% ntpq -npc rv
remote refid st t when poll reach delay offset jitter
==============================================================================
-66.250.45.2 192.5.41.40 2 u 22 512 377 26.389 7.667 0.498
*18.26.4.105 .GPS. 1 u 54 512 377 24.070 -0.925 0.458
+128.59.59.177 128.59.39.48 2 u 42 512 377 26.898 0.408 0.033
+17.254.0.27 17.72.133.54 2 u 48 512 377 54.681 0.587 0.106
24.103.228.242 18.26.4.105 2 u 37 512 377 33.338 -2.185 0.726
associd=0 status=0644 leap_none, sync_ntp, 4 events, freq_mode,
version="ntpd 4.2.4p5-a Mon Sep 20 14:30:32 EDT 2010 (1)",
processor="i386", system="FreeBSD/6.4-STABLE", leap=00, stratum=2,
precision=-19, rootdelay=24.070, rootdispersion=26.037, peer=43124,
refid=18.26.4.105,
reftime=d044e485.9adbf554 Wed, Sep 22 2010 16:24:37.604, poll=9,
clock=d044e6bd.18405690 Wed, Sep 22 2010 16:34:05.094, state=4,
offset=-0.239, frequency=19.470, jitter=1.043, noise=0.380,
stability=0.019, tai=0
Regards,
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-Chuck
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