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Operating Systems Solaris Execute the ntpdate command only when NTP daemon is stopped? Post 302738903 by hombreopaco on Monday 3rd of December 2012 05:36:01 AM
Old 12-03-2012
fpmurphy is rigth, I'm not sure about all the NTP versions, but, in my experience, any time difference more than 5 minutes will produce a ntpd synchronization fail, it will back to the LOCAL time, so, if you have more than this difference, you must to do a ntpdate before to start the ntpd daemon.
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ntp.drift(4)						     Kernel Interfaces Manual						      ntp.drift(4)

NAME
ntp.drift - Network Time Protocol (NTP) drift file DESCRIPTION
When the NTP daemon (xntpd) is first started, it computes the error in the intrinsic frequency of the clock on the computer it is running on. This process usually takes about a day or two after the daemon is started to compute a good estimate of this (and it needs a good estimate to synchronize closely to its server). Once the initial value is computed, it will change only by relatively small amounts during the course of continued operation. The driftfile declaration should always be included in the ntp.conf file. This provides xntpd with complete path name to a file in which it can store the current value of the frequency error. That way, if the daemon is stopped and restarted, it can reinitialize itself to the previous estimate without spending time recomputing the frequency estimate. The ntp.drift file contains one line with the following format: freq_offset flag Specifies the nominal frequency offset. DO NOT modify this field. Specifies the method used to improve system clock accuracy. Specifies that xntpd runs a Phase-Locked Loop (PLL) algorithm to keep synchronized with other hosts. This is the default. Specifies the use of the PLL algorithm in the kernel. This requires the NTP_TIME kernel option. After the option is configured in the kernel, edit the ntp.drift file and change the flag value to 1. See System Administration for information on the NTP_TIME kernel option. FILES
Conventional name of the drift file RELATED INFORMATION
Commands: ntpdate(8), ntpq(8), xntpd(8), xntpdc(8) Files: ntp.conf(4) Network Administration, System Administration delim off ntp.drift(4)
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