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