[mythtvnz] NTP tip

[Hadley Rich]

On Sun, 30 Mar 2008 21:55:27 Mark van Dijk wrote:
> occasionally i'm missing the end of some shows - even though i record
> for an extra 5 mins.  After some head scratching I just happened to
> notice that the clock on my MythTV box was several minutes out even
> though i had configured NTP when i first installed it.
>
> Did a "ntpq -p" from the command line and got a "No association ID's
> returned" error message coming back.  After a bit of playing around i
> fixed it by restarting NTP with "sudo /etc/init.d/ntp restart".
>
> Someone in an internet forum somewhere mentioned that this can happen
> when ntpd starts up before an IP address has been assigned by DHCP.

Whilst talking about NTP, openntpd is worth checking out, it's much simpler 
than ntpd.

hads
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