Re: ntpd not correcting system time, offset keeps increasing

[Takahiro HAYASHI <t.hash425%gmail.com@localhost>]

hello,

On 2015/01/14 10:43, scar 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
> #

Try comment out this minsane line in ntp.conf.

> # Refuse to set the local clock if there are too few good peers or servers.
> # This may help minimize disruptions due to network congestion. Don't
> # do this if you configure only one server!
>
> tos		minsane 2


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