My original question:
> I'm on a roll... been asking a lot of questions... but you folks have
> been great!
>
> I have an unresolved issue with xntpd that I can't quite figure out.
> When I first configured it a few months ago it seemed to run just
> fine. On a somehwhat regular basis (every few hours) it would write a
> message like
>
> time reset -0.162098 s
>
> into the system log. This made me feel good. Then, strangely, about a
> month ago or more these messages stopped appearing. I don't know of
> any changes I made on the system at that time... but I might be
> overlooking something. I tried restarting the daemon (a couple of
> times) and it did it's usual things... but no "time reset" messages.
> It did give me messages like:
>
> synchronized to xx.xx.xx.xx, stratum=1
>
> (with a real IP address, of course). This left me wondering if it was
> really doing it's job. Am I to believe that all of a sudden my machine
> no longer needed any time adjustments when for weeks before it needed
> a nudge a couple of times each day? Hmmm.
>
> I decided to not worry about it until I upgraded my system to v5.1
> (was using v5.0a). Now the xntpd daemon starts okay (and writes a
> message saying so into the system log) but there are no follow-up
> messages about it whatsoever. There are not even any "synchronzied"
> messages.
>
> I checked to see if my configuration survived the upgrade and it
> apparently did. I'm currently using xntpd version: ntpd 4.0.98a Thu
> Aug 24 23:12:07 EDT 2000.
>
> A couple of other odd things: It seems to me that in the past (when it
> was working as I expected) there were two xntpd processes going, one
> the child of the other. That is not the case now. There is only one.
> Furthermore, one of the xntpd processes had a nice value of -12 (or
> something like that) I don't see that process now. So something seems
> to be up.
Thanks to
"Clegg, Larry" <Larry_Clegg_at_intuit.com>
Alan Oborne <Oborne_at_Cardiff.ac.uk>
Rodney Simioni <rodney.simioni_at_citrix.com>
Using the "ntpq -p" command (of which I was previous unfamiliar) I was
able to convince myself that my xntpd was, in fact, doing its job. It
appears that my system is about 20 milliseconds off from its peers (more
or less) and that sounds about right to me. Given this information, I'm
not inclined to worry much about what is or is not in the log file!
This is a great list.
Peter
Received on Thu May 03 2001 - 18:28:18 NZST