[clue] [tech] Asterisk in a virtual machine, timer, timing, & real time clock questions

[Collins Richey]

On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 4:59 PM, Jim Ockers <ockers at ockers.net> wrote:

> Unfortunately I forgot to stabilize the system clock, and by the end of the
> day the phones were unusuable because the VM system clock/time was wandering
> around and even ntpd in the VM refused to work, insisting that it did not
> know what time it was.
>

When the clock is too far out of sync, ntp will refuese to do
anything. Run ntpdate <clockreferencehost> to force setting the clock,
then you can start ntp successfully.

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