On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 21:29, Bret Hughes wrote: > 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 >
Aparently dhcpd is rewriting ntp.conf in 7.3 also the drift file is incorrect. hmmm I guess I will have to dig around when I get some time. What does 8.X use for a drift file when it builds ntp.conf? What can be set in /etc/sysconfig/ntp? Bret -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
