On 16 Mar, O. Hartmann wrote: > Am Wed, 15 Mar 2017 13:12:37 -0700 > Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert_at_komquats.com> schrieb: >> > >> > When the clock is floating that wild, in all cases ntpd isn't >> > running any mor e. >> > I try to restart with options -g and -G to adjust the time quickly >> > at the beginning, which works fine. >> >> This is disconcerting. If your clock is floating wildly without ntpd >> running there are other issues that might be at play here. At most >> the clock might drift a little, maybe a minute or two a day but not >> by a lot. Does the drift cause your clocks to run fast or slow? > > Today, I switched off ntpd on the jail-bearing host. After an hour or > so the gain of the clock wasn't apart from my DCF77 clock - at least > not within the granularity of the minutes. So I switched on ntpd > again. After a while, I checked status via "service ntpd status", and > I would bet off my ass that the result was "is running with PID XXX". > The next minute I did the same, the clock was off by almost half an > hour (always behind real time, never before!) and ntpd wasn't running. > A coincidence? I can not tell, I did a "clear" on the terminal :-( But > that was strange. I think that ntp might exit if it sees time going insane. According to this old discussion, the exit is silent: https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=53906.0Received on Thu Mar 16 2017 - 17:25:16 UTC
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