[ntp:questions] drift file set to -500

Tom Smith smith at cag.zko.hp.com
Thu Nov 29 02:04:22 UTC 2007


Aggie wrote:
> David,
>> What happens if you delete the drift file and leave it for a few hours?
> 
> After I deleted the drift file and left it run overnight, the drift
> file was not created in the first couple hours and when I checked this
> morning. ntp.drift and ntp.drift.TEMP were created. ntp.drift couldn't
> be opened because ntp was using it. ntp.drifti.TEMP had a value of
> +500. And NTPD is still running. But I believe NTPD will stop
> eventually, same as what happened before.
> 
> Thanks,
> Kev.
> 

Sounds as though you had 2 copies of ntpd running. Not sure how, but
that seems like what you are describing here.




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