On Mon, May 22, 2000 at 01:40:44PM -0500, A. Scott White wrote: > Can anyone tell me how to get ntp running? I installed the package using > dselect, and it looks like it's there. The daemon is running, and the > run-level start scripts exist. > > Unfortunately, my time is still wrong. > > Any suggestions? Thanks.
If your system is way off, ntp will refuse to update the clock on the assumption that the remote server is insane. Soluiton: install ntpdate, edit /etc/init.d/ntpdate to sync to the ntp server at startup, and then ntp will keep things synced after that. HTH, -- Nathan Norman "Eschew Obfuscation" Network Engineer GPG Key ID 1024D/51F98BB7 http://home.midco.net/~nnorman/ Key fingerprint = C5F4 A147 416C E0BF AB73 8BEF F0C8 255C 51F9 8BB7
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