Re: [CentOS] Strange NTP problem

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.