Re: Problems with ntp & date

[Marco Peereboom <slash@peereboom.us>]

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>
> A fair number of people seems to have similar problems, judging
> from recent list messages.
>
> I think my problem was solved after specifying "minpoll 4 burst"
> in /etc/ntp.conf for the servers I'm syncronizing against, and
> upgrading to the devel version of NTP.  I'm not entierly sure
> which of these changes (burst, minpoll 4, or NTP upgrade) solved
> the problem (or rather, worked around it).
>

I am running devel but the minpoll line did not work.

[root@vuurmuur /var/log] /usr/local/sbin/ntpd -p /var/run/ntpd.pid
Sep  2 08:18:51 vuurmuur ntpd[27318]: ntpd 4.1.74@1.998-r Sat Aug 30 15:29:21 
MDT 2003 (1)
Sep  2 08:18:51 vuurmuur ntpd[27318]: configure: keyword "minpoll" unknown, 
line ignored

[root@vuurmuur /var/log] more /etc/ntp.conf
server tick.uh.edu
server now.okstate.edu
server navobs1.wustl.edu
minpoll 4 burst
driftfile /etc/ntp.drift


>
> Andreas