[ntp:questions] ntpdate removal is coming

Kenyon Ralph kenyon at kenyonralph.com
Sun Dec 18 00:19:28 UTC 2011


On 2011-12-17T14:36:06-0800, Harlan Stenn <stenn at ntp.org> wrote:
> Chad wrote:
> > Nov 20 15:30:06 ntpd[4969]: ntpd 4.2.2p1 at 1.1570-o Tue Feb 10 22:33:50 UTC 
> > 2009 (1)
> 
> This version of NTP was released in June of 2006.  There have been 2
> major releases of NTP since then - 4.2.4 and 4.2.6.  *Many* bugs have
> been fixed sinc then.
> 
> > Nov 20 15:30:06 ntpd[4971]: precision = 1.000 usec
> > . . .
> > Nov 20 15:30:06 ntpd[4971]: kernel time sync status 0040
> > Nov 20 15:30:06 ntpd[4971]: frequency initialized 18.666 PPM from 
> > /var/lib/ntp/drift
> > Nov 20 15:34:00 ntpd[4971]: synchronized to LOCAL(0), stratum 10
> 
> Why are you running a LOCAL refclock?  This is the reason it is taking
> you 20 minutes to sync when you have found another time source.

Chad is probably running CentOS 5 or similar. For some reason, when
you configure the time using the Gnome GUI, it always inserts that
LOCAL refclock (and some other stuff like restrict lines). Even if you
manually edit your ntp.conf, if you change anything via that GUI, the
LOCAL refclock will return.

-- 
Kenyon Ralph
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