Hi, 

My soekris of late is gaining time.  Not a little: like 48 hours a day. 
This despite that ntpd is running.  Can someone tell me what the heck is
going on?  

Here's tonight's session:

$ date
Sun Jan 15 06:44:42 EST 2006
$ sudo Ntpdate
Stopping ntpd.
getting date and time from nyc.speakeasy.net
15 Jan 06:49:49 ntpdate[6336]: step time server 216.254.95.2 offset
-195424.7661
61 sec
Starting ntpd.
$ date
Fri Jan 13 00:33:22 EST 2006

The "Ntpdate" script is mine for "convenience"; it stops the daemon, looks
up the time servers in ntpd.conf, and passes them to ntpdate(1) until it
returns success (which the first one normally does).  Then it restarts
ntpd.  

I did the same thing last night.  :-(  Look at this sad story:

$ grep ntp /var/log/messages
Jan 16 12:46:47 cherry ntpd[21788]: ntpd exiting on signal 15
Jan  9 23:56:07 cherry ntpd[28736]: ntpd 4.2.0-r Wed Dec  1 10:37:03 UTC
2004 (1)
Jan  9 23:56:07 cherry ntpd[28736]: precision = 22.000 usec
Jan  9 23:56:07 cherry ntpd[28736]: kernel time sync status 0040
Jan  9 23:56:07 cherry ntpd[28736]: frequency initialized -500.000 PPM
from /var/db/ntp.drift
Jan 15 03:44:48 cherry ntpd[28736]: ntpd exiting on signal 15
Jan 15 03:44:49 cherry ntpd[1342]: ntpd 4.2.0-r Wed Dec  1 10:37:03 UTC
2004 (1)
Jan 15 03:44:49 cherry ntpd[1342]: precision = 1.000 usec
Jan 15 03:44:49 cherry ntpd[1342]: kernel time sync status 0040
Jan 15 03:44:49 cherry ntpd[1342]: frequency initialized -500.000 PPM from
/var/db/ntp.drift
Jan 15 03:45:53 cherry ntpd[1342]: ntpd exiting on signal 15
Jan 11 19:17:31 cherry ntpd[6597]: ntpd 4.2.0-r Wed Dec  1 10:37:03 UTC
2004 (1)
Jan 11 19:17:31 cherry ntpd[6597]: precision = 20.000 usec
Jan 11 19:17:31 cherry ntpd[6597]: kernel time sync status 0040
Jan 11 19:17:32 cherry ntpd[6597]: frequency initialized -500.000 PPM from
/var/db/ntp.drift
Jan 15 06:50:15 cherry ntpd[6597]: ntpd exiting on signal 15
Jan 15 06:49:50 cherry ntpd[4238]: ntpd 4.2.0-r Wed Dec  1 10:37:03 UTC
2004 (1)
Jan 15 06:49:50 cherry ntpd[4238]: precision = 35.000 usec
Jan 15 06:49:50 cherry ntpd[4238]: kernel time sync status 0040
Jan 15 06:49:50 cherry ntpd[4238]: frequency initialized -500.000 PPM from
/var/db/ntp.drift

Is my hardware broken, or is there something I could do?  

Many thanks.

--jkl