[Info-vax] What's NTP doing ???

[Scott Dorsey]

David Froble  <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
>Ok, got interested, did some looking ...
>c  error: 0.003044
>  2 Feb 08:43:52 ntp[566]: offset: -0.002093 sec  freq: 13.131 ppm 
>poll: 1024 se
>c  error: 0.002265
>
>Apparently it's talking to the clock every 2-4 seconds ....

Yes, that's what it's for.  And if you set it up in a network of machines,
it will talk to all of them and average all the errors out between them 
constantly in real time, giving you a more accurate clock than any of them
individually.

If this is not what you want, and you do not want constant synchronization,
consider using ntpdate at boot time instead of running an ntp daemon.
--scott

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