NTPD not keeping time

[Chuck Swiger]

On Nov 30, 2006, at 11:16 AM, Kris Anderson wrote:
> I first ran ntpdate from /etc/rc.d/ntpdate and that
> set the date and time.

Good.  That should have gotten your clock reasonably sync'ed.

> Then I ran /etc/rc.d/ntpd and that started up fine.
>
> The followind day I find that the system still thinks
> it is the previous day and such.
>
> I thought the purpose of ntp was to keep the time
> correct, why would it be off?

NTPd does a good job of keeping the clock synced if properly  
configured, so there is likely to be something wrong with your  
specific circumstances.  What does "ntpq -p" show?

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-Chuck