problem with Time in Dapper

[Daniel Pittman]

"Howard Coles Jr." <dhcolesj at gmail.com> writes:
> On Monday 23 October 2006 8:43 pm, Jonathan Jesse wrote:
>
>> The only problem I have is w/ my virutal machines that drift based on
>> how long they are paused.  However my Xubuntu machines don't have the
>> same problem or as big of a problem?
>
> Well, I'm kinda stumped.  I would have thought that the ntp daemon
> would have checked the time sources every so often and kept itself in
> time, adjusting the drift file accordingly.  However, it appears that
> the ntpd that comes with Kubuntu is merely for other machines to sync
> with it, and it doesn't check other time sources.

Unless you installed an NTP daemon yourself Ubuntu and friends only ship
'ntpdate' -- a one-shot tool to set the date at boot time.

If you did install an ntp daemon it will, by default, use ntp.ubuntu.com
as the sole time source; add more in /etc/ntp.conf to taste.

> I'm still trying to figure out how to make it check the time sources I
> have setup in the /etc/ntp.conf file.

It almost certainly is.  What is the output of 'ntpq -c peers' on your
machine?

Regards,
        Daniel
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