Reference Time Off By More Than Twenty Minutes

The LSMS’s NTP client daemon expects that the LSMS system time has been set close to the real time. If the reference time received from the NTP server is significantly different from the LSMS system time, the daemon waits up to twenty minutes until it sets the time. However, if the reference time is off more than about twenty minutes (which is rare), the daemon terminates and does not set the system time.

If you think that the daemon may have terminated, perform the following procedure:

  1. Determine whether the ntpddaemon process is running by logging in as root and entering the following command:

    # ntpq -p

    If the daemon is not running, check the /var/log/messages file.

  2. To set the system clock, either perform the process described in Manually Controlling the LSMS Time Without an External NTP Source or enter the following command:

    # ntpdate <IP_address_of_NTP_server>

  3. Start the ntpddaemon by entering the following commands:

    # /etc/rc4.d/S58ntpd start

  4. Verify that the ntpddaemon started by repeating step 1.
Parent topic: Troubleshooting NTP Problems