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