OK, I was setting up xntpd the other night (i.e. running it) and have had
it running the past few days..  I put the following in /etc/ntp.conf:

server ntp1.berkeley.edu
driftfile /etc/ntp.drift

And ran xntpd as root.  While xntpd will print messages to the log about
it detecting my slip connection going up and down, and while if I kill
xntpd and use ntpdate it will set the time correctly, xntpd by itself
seems to do _nothing_.  Over the past couple of days it doesn't seem to
have set my clock at all (since on a comparison of an ntpdate -q to my
timeserver and a date on my local machine I'm now about 1.5 mins off.. my
clock drifts quite a bit)  

Any suggestions?  I was just running xntpd as "xntpd" with no flags..

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