[ntp:questions] slowly gaining time

Jammer ask.me at mail.com
Sat Dec 23 05:58:10 UTC 2006


Steve Kostecke wrote:
> On 2006-12-22, Jammer <ask.me at mail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Jammer wrote:
>>
>>> The internal clock keeps time. I set only "server localhost"
> 
> <snip>
> 
>> # ntpq -np
>>    remote     refid   st t when poll reach  delay  offset  jitter
>> ===================================================================
>>   127.0.0.1  .INIT.   16 l    - 1024    0   0.000  0.000   4000.00
> 
> You've told ntpd to poll (i.e. get the time from) its self. That's not
> going to do you any good.
> 
It should do nothing. :-)
It turns out my clock my have problems without ntpd running. :-(




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