Greetings; I'm finally getting my errant clock under control but it took runnng ntpdate in the adjtime mode at 15 minute intervals to get it to eventually settle, with a tickadj setting in the 9925 area. Now I'm seeing it drift back and forth a fraction of a second, and I'd like to preserve the adjustment ntpdate is doing across a reboot by some means other than hard coding the tickadj in /etc/rc.d/rc.local. Unforch /var/lib/ntp/drift although being touched, is not being updated with anything but a 0.0000 setting. Does anyone know where ntpdate keeps its adjustment setting? The man page seems to be less than helpfull about this, only saying that it makes adjustments if the error is less than 128 milliseconds. That also seems like a needless bottleneck and if that could be expanded to 1.28 seconds it would be a lot handier out here in the multiflora rose, hydrangia and mountain laural country. Hints gleefully checked out since I hate pounding on the network timeservers at 15 minute intervals. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.30% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attorneys please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2004 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
