Re: ntpd fails to adjust very large deltas

2012-09-18 Thread Theo de Raadt
> Otto Moerbeek wrote: > > > ntpd is never going to be able to correct these large offets within > > reasonable > > time. It was designed to adjust clocks that have offsets of a couple of > > minutes. Seeing the messages in syslog clear indicates you have some work to > > do. So i like them to s

Re: ntpd fails to adjust very large deltas

2012-09-18 Thread Bob Beck
On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 8:12 AM, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > Otto Moerbeek wrote: > >> ntpd is never going to be able to correct these large offets within >> reasonable >> time. It was designed to adjust clocks that have offsets of a couple of >> minutes. Seeing the messages in syslog clear in

Re: ntpd fails to adjust very large deltas

2012-09-18 Thread Christian Weisgerber
Otto Moerbeek wrote: > ntpd is never going to be able to correct these large offets within reasonable > time. It was designed to adjust clocks that have offsets of a couple of > minutes. Seeing the messages in syslog clear indicates you have some work to > do. So i like them to stay. xntpd exits

Re: ntpd fails to adjust very large deltas

2012-09-18 Thread Otto Moerbeek
ntpd is never going to be able to correct these large offets within reasonable time. It was designed to adjust clocks that have offsets of a couple of minutes. Seeing the messages in syslog clear indicates you have some work to do. So i like them to stay. -Otto Op 17 sep. 2012 om 09:16 heeft Ma

ntpd fails to adjust very large deltas

2012-09-17 Thread Mansour Moufid
Hello, After running ntpd for the first time on a machine with a bad clock, I got the following in syslog: ntpd[24277]: adjusting local clock by 369307689.625505s ntpd[24277]: adjtime failed: Invalid argument I think adjtime limits its argument to a maximum value. Apparently on Unix this