ntp problems

[Alex Dean]

On Mar 7, 2006, at 9:41 AM, Darrin Chandler wrote:
> Alex Dean wrote:
>> For the server, /etc/openntpd/ntpd.conf has 'servers  
>> poo.ntp.org'.   (That was the default, and I didn't see any reason  
>> to change.)
>
> You meant to type 'pool.ntp.org', right? ;)

Yep, sure did.  Fat fingers...

> Try manually setting your clock to within a minute or so of the  
> real time and check the logs again. Openntpd seems to have issues  
> if the time diff is too large. One way around this is to start the  
> daemon with the "-s" option.

That worked.  My clock is now synced correctly.  I need to do a  
little research on how to keep things in sync.  I thought that having  
ntpd running was all I needed to do, but it looks like there's more  
going on.

Thanks for the help!

alex
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