On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, brian moore wrote: > On Wed, Jan 01, 1992 at 01:27:39AM -0600, hanasaki wrote: > > it is serving the time fine to others but: > > it wont set my server's time from another time server > > > > I have entered "server... " lines into /etc/ntp.conf > > If your time is too far off, ntpd will not know whether to trust the > remote sites or yours and will refuse to change the time. >
Exact. In this case you should install the "ntpdate" package. It will be run just before xntpd to set a correct time (not too far), then xntpd will synchronize as usual. Don't forget to edit /etc/init.d/ntpdate before attempting to run it. Regards. Niko.
