Hi<br><br>Been fiddling with ntpd on my slackware 10.0 box for a while now but it constantly seems to be freezing and allowing the time to drift significantly.<br><br>root@mythtv:/home/mythtv# uname -a<br>Linux mythtv 2.6.12.3-mythtv
#3 Tue Jul 26 23:03:30 EST 2005 i686 unknown unknown GNU/Linux<br><br>--- <br>root@mythtv:/home/mythtv# cat /etc/ntp.conf <br># Sample /etc/ntp.conf: Configuration file for ntpd.<br>#<br><br>logfile /var/log/ntpd.log
<br>server <a href="http://ntp.iinet.net.au">ntp.iinet.net.au</a> <br>server <a href="http://ntp.nsw.westnet.com.au">ntp.nsw.westnet.com.au</a><br>server <a href="http://time.deakin.edu.au">time.deakin.edu.au</a><br>server
<a href="http://ntp0.cs.mu.OZ.AU">ntp0.cs.mu.OZ.AU</a><br>server <a href="http://ntp1.cs.mu.OZ.AU">ntp1.cs.mu.OZ.AU</a><br>server <a href="http://au.pool.ntp.org">au.pool.ntp.org</a><br><br>fudge <a href="http://127.127.1.0">
127.127.1.0</a> stratum 10<br><br>driftfile /etc/ntp/drift<br>multicastclient # listen on default <a href="http://224.0.1.1">224.0.1.1</a><br>broadcastdelay 0.008<br><br>#<br># Keys file. If you want to diddle your server at run time, make a
<br># keys file (mode 600 for sure) and define the key number to be<br># used for making requests.<br># PLEASE DO NOT USE THE DEFAULT VALUES HERE. Pick your own, or remote<br># systems might be able to reset your clock at will.
<br>#<br>#keys /etc/ntp/keys<br>#trustedkey 65535<br>#requestkey 65535<br>#controlkey 65535<br><br># Don't serve time or stats or trust anyone else by default (more secure)<br>restrict default noquery notrust nomodify
<br># Trust ourselves. :-)<br>restrict <a href="http://127.0.0.1">127.0.0.1</a><br><br>--- <br><br>I am starting ntpd up from /etc/rc.d/rc.local with:<br><br># start up ntpd <br>ntpdate <a href="http://dns.iinet.net.au">
dns.iinet.net.au</a><br>/usr/sbin/ntpd<br><br>When ntpd first starts up, the log file registers:<br>6 Jan 01:10:53 ntpd[2597]: frequency initialized 0.000 PPM from /etc/ntp/drift<br><br>but there are no log entries after that date.
<br><br>ntpd seems to be running still:<br><br>root@mythtv:/etc/rc.d# ps aux | grep ntpd<br>root 2620 0.0 0.7 3640 3636 ? SLs Jan06 1:23 /usr/sbin/ntpd<br>root 10970 0.0 0.1 1772 624 pts/1 S+ 19:29 0:00 grep ntpd
<br><br><br>is SLs it's normal running state? I'm not sure...<br><br><br><br><br><br>