[CentOS] ntp will not drift to correct time
Alan Sparks
asparks at doublesparks.net
Wed Aug 12 15:58:30 UTC 2009
Tom Brown wrote:
> Hi
>
> On 5.3 i have a situation where some boxes have been 3 or 4 seconds out
> and restarting ntpd has fixed the issue.
>
> What i dont understand is why the clocks did not drift to the correct
> time when the config seems correct in that restarting ntp did correct
> the time.
>
> Is there something 'special' i need to do in order for the drift to work?
>
Is the directory /var/lib/ntp present, and with write permissions for
the 'ntp' user? Does the drift file exist?
Does ntpd ever lock in? What do you see in 'ntpq -p' over time?
Are these heavily-loaded boxes, or boxes with wildly-varying loads?
-Alan
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