NTP offset issue with OpenSUSE 11.0

[henders254]

My NTP on Opensuse 11.0 seems to drift away slowly and reach up to 1200 offset and time gets skewed by an hour or so. I restart NTPD every night but that doesn't help.

Here's what my ntp logs says:

ntpd[2527]: ntpd exiting on signal 15
ntpd[5733]: no reply; clock not set

"ps aux | grep ntp" shows ntpd is running.

/etc/ntp.keys

1 M e3e8d1a

cat /etc/ntp.conf

driftfile /var/lib/ntp/drift/ntp.drift          
logfile /var/log/ntp                     
server ntp1.company.tld

I tried using IP address instead of FQDN & no luck there. I can resolve ntp1.company.tld (using nslookup) and ping it.

cat /var/lib/ntp/drift/ntp.drift

447.839

tcpdump from the ntp server shows I receive packets when I restart NTPd on the OpenSUSE client.

Thanks for any help.

[ab@novell.com]

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Is this a VM by chance? What do you have in your drift file?

Good luck.





henders254 wrote:
> My NTP on Opensuse 11.0 seems to drift away slowly and reach up to 1200
> offset and time gets skewed by an hour or so. I restart NTPD every night
> but that doesn't help.
>
> Here's what my ntp logs says:
>
>
> Code:
> --------------------
>
> ntpd[2527]: ntpd exiting on signal 15
> ntpd[5733]: no reply; clock not set
>
> --------------------
>
>
> "ps aux | grep ntp" shows ntpd is running.
>
> /etc/ntp.keys
>
>
> Code:
> --------------------
>
> 1 M e3e8d1a
>
> --------------------
>
>
> cat /etc/ntp.conf
>
>
> Code:
> --------------------
>
> driftfile /var/lib/ntp/drift/ntp.drift
> logfile /var/log/ntp
> server ntp1.company.tld
>
> --------------------
>
>
> I tried using IP address instead of FQDN & no luck there. I can resolve
> ntp1.company.tld (using nslookup) and ping it.
>
> cat /var/lib/ntp/drift/ntp.drift
>
>
> Code:
> --------------------
>
> 447.839
>
> --------------------
>
>
> tcpdump from the ntp server shows I receive packets when I restart NTPd
> on the OpenSUSE client.
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
>
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[henders254]

Originally Posted by ab@novell.com

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Is this a VM by chance? What do you have in your drift file?

Yes it is VM but I have other OpenSUSE boxes in VM and they don't have any issues.

I have already showed the drift file output.

Thanks.

[Knurpht]

Sure your networkconnection is up and running by the time NTP starts?
Did you configure things 'by hand' or through Yast?

Never had any problems with NTP, except when network issues were causing them