NTPD synchronisation patches

Joerg Sonnenberger joerg at britannica.bec.de
Thu Apr 14 03:22:38 PDT 2005


On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 01:52:45PM +0200, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 11:14:56AM +0200, Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai wrote:
> > Oh by the way, ntpd does not like, if it is running, that ntpdate sets the
> > clock.  A bug?  ntpd totally stopped synching after I did a one time sync
> > with ntpdate while ntpd was running.
> 
> It should recover, but I have to check.

More precisely, it's internal time keeping is off by the delta the system
clock is stepped. In your case, it should take 2 hours to recover.
I don't think it is a bug, that's the reason why you should not step the
clock after all :)

Joerg





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