Hi Russell, On Tue, 27 Nov 2012, Russell Coker wrote:
But I prefer to just start it [ntpd] and let it do it's thing. If the difference is less than 20 minutes then it can manage it by itself.
Is your ntpd server inside a virtual machine? In "virtualland" time is a problem. In short, there is only one timer in hardware, and the virtual machine may lose ticks if machines are busy with something else. If "ntp time" and "system time" differ too much, ntpd stops synchronizing, and the gap widens. I don't have the problem at the moment (mostly using FreeBSD jails sharing the same kernel) so I forgot details but I can dig it up if you need it. Otherwise it may give you the right direction, I hope. Although, I have one VirtualBox left, and that was out of time a fortnight ago - most likely because I updated the kernel, and forgot to update the VirtualBox guest additions so they weren't loaded. Regards Peter