[SATLUG] ntp problems

[Vern Davis]

On 11/3/06, Travis H. <travis at nexus.subspacefield.org> wrote:
> I've got every system running ntp, slaving off one master timehost,
> that synchronizes with the outside world (this ensures that all
> of them are synchronized with each other, because consistency
> is more important to me than accuracy, because the former allows
> me to correlate log file entries, but the latter just makes sure
> I'm not late to work).
>
> But on one client, my workstation, it first synchronizes with the
> timehost, then it starts running off its local clock, which is
> set up as a stratum 12 server, whereas the timehost is stratum 3.
> The only reason that's there is if the time server is down, it
> will run off the internal timer until it's back up.  So it
> ends up with an offset from the server of about -29687 ms,
> after just two and a half hours.
>
> Anyone know how to troubleshoot this or have any guesses?
> Maybe I just have a flaky RTC?


I would start by replacing the bios backup battery, if it's not a
fairly new motherboard.

Don't cost much.

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