[ntp:questions] Ntp not syncing after powerfail of server
Chuck Swiger
cswiger at mac.com
Thu May 19 17:25:58 UTC 2011
On May 19, 2011, at 10:01 AM, M. Giertzsch wrote:
> To run into the problem that the client is not syncing to the server I
> --> stopped the NTP service on both client and server
> --> changed the time on the client back to january of 1975
> --> started the NTP service on the client
> --> started the NTP service on the server a little later
By default, ntpd will not try to correct a clock which is insanely far off. The -g flag can be used to change this; otherwise run ntpdate -b at boot to get the clock close and then run ntpd afterwards to keep the clock in sync.
Regards,
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-Chuck
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