Re: system (not HW) clock advancing really fast

[Michael Frank]

On Monday 16 February 2004 15:26, Bill Anderson wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-02-15 at 23:24, Michael Frank wrote:
> > I had this somtetimes when using ntpd doing step time update
> > resulting in silly values in /etc/adjtime . 
> > 
> > # mv /etc/adjtime /tmp 
> > # hwclock --systohc
> > 
> > and see if it goes away.
> 
> Thanks, though it didn't work. :(
> 

Please check your /etc/ntp/drift , the value in it is
usually between -30.0 and 30.0

If it is much larger than that, set it to 0.0 and restart ntpd.

Also move /etc/adjtime away again.

Regards
Michael


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