Fedora Users — NTPD and FC3

It seems like I've seen a handful of posts regarding ntpd and FCx. I've read the few I've found in the past few days but to no avail. I'm seeing the problem on this machine which worked very well running FC1. I did a fresh install of FC3 (on a different hard drive, actually) and have not been able to make the ntp daemon work properly. Meanwhile, I have another machine which dual boots FC3 and Win98 and ntpd works well on it. I have been all over the configuration files on both machines and decided about 4 hours ago that a fresh start would be good. So, I removed the ntp-4.2.0.a.20040617-4 rpm and its dependencies, firstboot and system-config-date and reinstalled from the FC3 CDs. I did this on both machines, issued a "service ntpd start" on each and went out for coffee. I did nothing on either machine to set time zone or manually set the time. Here's a quick comparison of the two:

[root@mavis ~]# uname -a Linux mavis.localdomain 2.6.9-1.667smp #1 SMP Tue Nov 2 14:59:52 EST 2004 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux

[root@mavis ~]# ntpq ntpq> pe remote refid st t when poll reach delay offset jitter ============================================================================== +time.uswo.net 198.82.1.201 3 u 22 64 77 60.548 -1778.9 316.669 *0x50a13f43.boan 192.36.134.25 2 u 26 64 77 140.391 -1947.8 394.214 +blade.avnf.com 212.82.32.15 2 u 25 64 77 55.640 -1768.1 297.106 LOCAL(0) LOCAL(0) 10 l 26 64 77 0.000 0.000 0.002 ntpq>

[root@clem ~]# uname -a Linux clem 2.6.9-1.667 #1 Tue Nov 2 14:41:31 EST 2004 i586 i586 i386 GNU/Linux [root@clem ~]# ntpq ntpq> pe remote refid st t when poll reach delay offset jitter ============================================================================== +zoiedog.com 131.107.1.10 2 u 391 1024 377 114.447 -24.679 1.572 *171.Red-80-36-1 130.206.3.166 2 u 425 1024 377 211.861 -33.906 1.004 +ns1.pulsation.f 194.2.0.28 3 u 399 1024 377 145.030 -36.732 3.050 LOCAL(0) LOCAL(0) 10 l 48 64 377 0.000 0.000 0.002 ntpq>

Quite a contrast, huh? I've been fighting this on "mavis" since either Thursday or Friday and have *never* seen a poll interval greater than 64 seconds and I can count on something similar to this: Nov 14 20:14:59 mavis ntpd[28082]: time reset -2.904915 s decorating my /var/log/messages about every 15-20 minutes!

I know this has been a long message already but it would be incomplete w/o some information about the hardware. mavis: ASUS A7N8X delux V2.0, AMD XP2600+ 512MB DDR, Maxtor 160 GB, ATI Radeon 9000 clem: iWill xa-100+, AMD K6-2 400MHz 320MB PC100 mem, Maxtor 13GB, S3 virge DX PCI video

Any ideas would be most welcome 'cause I'm fresh out and I don't really want to back down to FC1.