NTP synchronization problem

From: Orlando Gurdiel <ogurdiel_at_trapsystems.com>
Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2006 15:10:11 -0400

Dear Managers,

We're running NTP services on a 4-node cluster (Tru64 v5.1B w/ PK5).
For some reason, after a few weeks we noticed that each node has a
different system time (between 10 seconds and 20 minutes difference from
the time server). Each node has the same ntp configuration
(/etc/ntp.conf).

We can force a client-server time synchronization by restarting the
xntpd daemons on each node and, that works fine for a while
(/usr/sbin/xntpd -g -x -c /etc/ntp.conf). Supposedly this
synchronization should happen automatically every so often. Also, time
should be corrected little by little automatically and not the opposite.
Is there a way to 'force' this time synchronization after X amount of
time? Maybe by adding some option(s) to the /etc/ntp.conf file or
starting the xntpd daemons and using certain parameters???

Regards,
Orlando
Received on Tue Aug 08 2006 - 19:13:00 NZST

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