How is ntpd data used -

Rodolfo J. Paiz rpaiz at simpaticus.com
Sat Nov 6 17:08:24 UTC 2004


On Sat, 2004-11-06 at 08:12 -0500, Bob Goodwin wrote:
> Markku Kolkka wrote:
>
> >You should insert a few minutes of delay between those two calls 
> >to let the ntp daemon to work. 
> >  
> >
> Yes I do that -
> 
> ~  cat ./tsync
> 
> service ntpd restart
> 
> sleep 5
> 
> ntpq -p
> 

Note Markku said "minutes", not 5 seconds. Since ntpd wants very high
precision, it does not make abrupt changes to a system. IMHO, you should
wait at least 15 *minutes* for ntpd to begin settling down before you
query it.

Cheers,

-- 
Rodolfo J. Paiz <rpaiz at simpaticus.com>
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