Re: ntpd not correcting system time, offset keeps increasing

[christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

In article <m94hjf$jb0$1%ger.gmane.org@localhost>,
scar  <scar%drigon.com@localhost> wrote:
>ntpd does not seem to be doing it's job.  i have Ver. 4.2.6p5 installed
>on 6.1.5 and after 51 days of uptime, the system clock is 5 minutes
>behind and the offset just keeps increasing.  ntpdate seems to work fine
>when the system boots, but ntpd just isn't maintaining the time after boot.
>
>here is my ntpd.conf:  http://pastebin.com/EbxzPBw7
>
>i noticed /var/db/ntp.drift doesn't exist which sounds important to keep
>the time maintained....
>
># ntpq -p
>     remote           refid      st t when poll reach   delay   offset
>jitter
>==============================================================================
>+Maggie.Telcom.A 132.163.4.102    2 u    6   64  377    0.455  297275.
>19.763
>#
>
>i used to have "restrict ntp.arizona.edu nomodify notrap" after the
>server line at the end of the conf file but it sounds like those
>settings prevent ntpd from working, so i removed it.  but after
>restarting ntpd, the offset reported by ntpq just keeps increasing

Did you run ntpdate first to sync the time?

christos