[ntp:questions] Re: Help needed with excessive drift

Brad Knowles brad at stop.mail-abuse.org
Fri May 6 09:07:40 UTC 2005


At 11:32 PM +0000 2005-05-05, Tom Smith wrote:

>  Yes, well that's not close enough. You should be within 128 msec
>  before you start ntpd.

	Not true.  128msec is the threshold for stepping versus slewing. 
Being 200 seconds out before starting ntpd is not a problem.  Being 
more than 1000 seconds out before starting ntpd could be a problem, 
if you don't use the "-g" option.

>  You need to insert "ntpdate -b [server]" before you start ntpd.

	You didn't read a word he wrote, did you?  He said that he 
doesn't have a version of ntpdate that has been ported over, so he 
used "ntpd -q" instead.

>  And if you then delete ntp.drift and _then_ start ntpd?

	Which is exactly what he did.  Go back and re-read what he wrote, 
but this time pay attention.

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