Mike McMullen wrote:
I made the changes you suggested and when I do an ntpq -p
I get the following:
remote refid st t when poll reach delay offset jitter
==============================================================================
time.nist.gov .ACTS. 1 u 43 64 1 43.295 4812.14 0.002
ns.arc.nasa.gov 198.123.30.132 2 u 47 64 1 22.387 4812.17 0.002
tick.usno.navy. .USNO. 1 u 46 64 1 272.895 4894.98 0.002
LOCAL(0) LOCAL(0) 10 l 45 64 1 0.000 0.000 0.002
This is more than I got before. The time now seems to be within 3-4 seconds
of my other servers.
When I do ntpstat though I get the following:
unsynchronised
time server re-starting
polling server every 16 s
So I seem to be very close.
It takes a while to synchronise properly. Give it time.
Your time would be closer to real time if you ran ntpdate before starting up
ntpd though. If you create/edit the file /etc/ntp/step-tickers and have it
contain the following lines:
time.nist.gov
ns.arc.nasa.gov
tick.usno.navy.mil
then the Fedora NTP initscript will try to synchronise time with one of those
servers before starting ntpd, and your time will be better synchronised, more
quickly.
Cheers, Paul.