On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Andrew Robinson wrote:

> on 7/6/00 11:32 AM, Joe Laffey at joe@laffeycomputer.com wrote:
> 
> > I keep getting this problem log error:
> > Jul  7 11:30:05 akram xntpd[3299]: time error -86417.141867 is way too
> > large (set clock manually)
> > 
> > 
> > I have manually set the clock to the right time. However, when I first
> > booted NetBSD the clock was set to 1956 (dead PRAM battery). What is xntpd
> > comparing the current time to? It did not seem to create a drift file (so
> > I touched one).
> > 
> > Any ideas?
> > 
> 
> On my HP-UX boxes at work, the NTP startup script runs ntpdate to set the
> time at bootup. 

I screwed up... I had set the time about one day in advance by mistake
(hence the -86417 seconds... about one day).


Joe Laffey
LAFFEY Computer Imaging
St. Louis, MO
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