rudolf wrote:
> Chuck Swiger wrote:
[ ... ]
> Is it safe to ignore the frequency errors? What does the 'hardware clock 
> is busted' mean?

It means your clock doesn't keep time consistently, so ntpd has to recalibrate 
by stepping the clock rather than skewing it gradually to keep "correct time".

The situation is safe so long as ntpd can talk to other timeservers to keep 
correcting things.  If you lost that connectivity, your system time would drift 
significantly compared to what is normally expected...

-- 
-Chuck