xntpd daemon

[John Carver]

I am configuring 3 servers for ntp. I have npt
configured and running on 2 of them, a k-class
and a n-class. On the a-class machine I have configured in a similar manner, but the xntpd
daemon won't stay running. When the command
ntpq -p is run, the offset value keeps increasing until it hits the max value of 359989. Also this command seems to show that
a conneciton with a configured time server never happens. Finally after a few minutes a line is written to syslog.log: time error -3599.900784 is way too large (set clock manually). The time is correct to begin with, within a second of the other machines and the time server. Not sure what could be causing this problem.

[Mark Greene_1 · Accepted solution]

For the server where xntp dies, verify that the timezone is correct on the server, and reset the clock via sam.

HTH
mark

[Hai Nguyen_1]

If the time was pretty much the same then it should have sync'ed. Can you check and compare timezones to ensure that they are all the same?

Hai

[harry d brown jr]

check for patches and check this thread out:

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0x0b5b50011d20d6118ff40090279cd0f9,00.html

live free or die
harry

[John Carver]

The /etc/TIMEZONE file was not configured properly. After reconfiguring, a reboot was
necessary to have the timezone show correctly.
Now xntpd stays running and ntp is functioning
as configured. Thanks to all who responded.