Date: Mon, 05 Dec 2005 18:33:19 -0500
From: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@verizon.net>
Subject: Re: ntp problems
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On Monday 05 December 2005 16:39, john stultz wrote:
>On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 00:31 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> Greetings everybody;
>>
>> I seem to have an ntp problem.  I noticed a few minutes ago that if
>> my watch was anywhere near correct, then the computer was about 6
>> minutes fast.  Doing a service ntpd restart crash set it back nearly
>> 6 minutes.
>
>Not sure exactly what is going on, but you might want to try dropping
>the LOCAL server reference in your ntp.conf. It could be you're just
>syncing w/ yourself.
>
>thanks
>-john

Joanne, bless her, pointed out that I had probably turned the ACPI
stuff in my kernel back on.  She was of course correct, shut it off &
ntpd works just fine.

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