[TriLUG] A clock problem

Michael Tharp gxti at partiallystapled.com
Tue Jul 19 19:48:28 EDT 2005


Randall Barlow wrote:

>Michael Tharp wrote:
>
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>>My /etc/conf.d/ntpd(sans comments):
>><snip>
>>NTPD_OPTS="-s"
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>This is the only part of my configuration that seems to be different.  I
>already had ntpd running in the default runlevel - I had it working just
>fine before the clock thing changed.  I added the "-s" to my ntpd.conf
>file, we'll see if that does the trick (does it synchronize?)
>
>Thanks!
>Randy Barlow
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-s tells ntpd to set your clock on startup instead of slewing it, 
depending on your system the drift may be so high that ntpd will not try 
to slew it.



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