[CentOS] Strange NTP problem

[Paul Heinlein]

On Tue, 20 May 2008, Alfred von Campe wrote:

> Bad system:
>
> # ntpq -np
>    remote           refid      st t when poll reach   delay   offset  jitter
> ==============================================================================
> 10.101.32.104   67.128.71.65     3 u  689 1024  377    0.659  54095.7 4263.68

Yeah, with an offset of 54 seconds, it's a bad system. :-)

Try this (assuming 10.101.32.104 is your preferred local NTP server):

   service ntpd stop
   echo "10.101.32.104" > /etc/ntp/step-tickers
   service ntpd start

Adding a server to the step-tickers file will tell the ntpd init 
script to do an ntpdate sync against that host before starting ntpd.

-- 
Paul Heinlein <> heinlein at madboa.com <> www.madboa.com