Hi,

I found out that the ntpd service that I've set up a few weeks ago on a Centos5 machine doesn't correctly synchronize the server time. I detected an offset of more than 5 minutes (by stopping ntpd and executing ntpdate).

After setting up the service I checked the setup via ntpstat:

[xxxx@xxx ~]$ ntpstat -q
synchronised to local net at stratum 11
time correct to within 10 ms
polling server every 1024 s

I repeated this check every day and it always showed this output. Doesn't this output tell me that the server time is sane?