[TriLUG] NTPD sync errors

[Jeff Bollinger]

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A friend of mine is having some serious issues with keeping his time
accurate on his RedHat 9 system.  It seems as if whenver he locks his
screen and walks away for a few minutes, when he comes back and unlocks
the screen (Xscreensaver I think) the time synchronization is lost.  The
only logs he could send me are the following:

Jul 17 11:46:50 sys ntpd[4142]: kernel time discipline status change 41
Jul 17 11:48:58 sys ntpd[4142]: kernel time discipline status change 1
Jul 17 09:05:15 sys ntpd[4142]: synchronisation lost


He previously synced his hardware clock with the correct system time
(hwclock -systohc), but that didnt' seem to keep.  He is not running
apmd, and I think he is starting ntpd from xinetd, but when you ps -eaf
|grep ntpd on his system you get:

ntp       4699     1  0 14:07 ?        00:00:00 ntpd -U ntp

On my system, I start ntpd from xinetd as well, but my ps output looks
like this:

ntp        628     1  0 Jul08 ?        00:00:00 [ntpd]

Which I'm assuming means that it was started by the kernel.  Mine
behaves properly, so I basically copied all my ntpd.conf and associated
files over to his system.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Jeff
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Jeff Bollinger, CISSP
University of North Carolina
IT Security Analyst
105 Abernethy Hall
mailto: jeff @unc dot edu
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