On May 21, 2008, at 0:55, Paul Heinlein wrote: > 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. In effect, that's what I did manually. When I found out that about this problem, I did the following: # service ntpd stop # ntpdate ntp # service ntpd start (ntp is a CNAME record for our local NTP server). But after 24 hours, the system was off my more than 5 minutes. Why would it not bind to the NTP server. Here is some output from tshark while ntpd was running: # tshark udp port 123 Running as user "root" and group "root". This could be dangerous. Capturing on eth0 0.000000 10.66.42.109 -> 10.101.32.104 NTP NTP client 0.000683 10.101.32.104 -> 10.66.42.109 NTP NTP server 1025.000547 10.66.42.109 -> 10.101.32.104 NTP NTP client 1025.002017 10.101.32.104 -> 10.66.42.109 NTP NTP server 2050.000145 10.66.42.109 -> 10.101.32.104 NTP NTP client 2050.000812 10.101.32.104 -> 10.66.42.109 NTP NTP server 3076.000485 10.66.42.109 -> 10.101.32.104 NTP NTP client 3076.001917 10.101.32.104 -> 10.66.42.109 NTP NTP server 4101.001065 10.66.42.109 -> 10.101.32.104 NTP NTP client 4101.002016 10.101.32.104 -> 10.66.42.109 NTP NTP server 5126.000671 10.66.42.109 -> 10.101.32.104 NTP NTP client 5126.001551 10.101.32.104 -> 10.66.42.109 NTP NTP server 6151.001270 10.66.42.109 -> 10.101.32.104 NTP NTP client 6151.001868 10.101.32.104 -> 10.66.42.109 NTP NTP server 7175.999866 10.66.42.109 -> 10.101.32.104 NTP NTP client 7176.000482 10.101.32.104 -> 10.66.42.109 NTP NTP server 8201.999206 10.66.42.109 -> 10.101.32.104 NTP NTP client 8202.000563 10.101.32.104 -> 10.66.42.109 NTP NTP server 9227.000796 10.66.42.109 -> 10.101.32.104 NTP NTP client 9227.001462 10.101.32.104 -> 10.66.42.109 NTP NTP server Does this make any sense? Alfred