On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 20:22, Sheridan J. Adams wrote: > > From: "Todd A. Jacobs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > On 10 Feb 2003, Sheridan J. Adams wrote: > > > > > As of late, I have noticed the clock on my system drifting like crazy. > > > > That's because you have a misconfigured (pronounced "stock") ntp.conf. > > > > > restrict default ignore > > > > This tells ntp to ignore all time datagrams. All of them. Thanks, Red > > Hat! > > > > Replace "ignore" with "nomodify" if you're not using dhclient. Otherwise, > > apply this patch to dhclient: > > > > http://www.codegnome.org/patches/dhclient-script.patch > > Doh! Thanks, I'll try that. It wasn't always in the default config - I checked >other Red Hat default installs. It was missing in 7.2, and in 7.1 and 8.0. Go >figure. > > > I made the change and while checking releases for this note, the clock sync'd up. >Thanks once again.
I do not have that issue on a new 7.3 smp install but I did see that the drift file was set to /etc/ntp.drift and the ntp user did not have perms to write to /etc/ntp.drift.TEMP I changed it to /etc/ntp/drift and the error log message went away. The clock still drifts wildly and I have rebooted the box since I found some discussion about the rtc having issues that only a reboot would fix. I had problems on a different box way back when with an smp kernel but this one ran fine on 7.1. Bret -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
