Re: [CentOS] NTP Service Running on Local Host does not Sync System Time

On 2016-01-27 09:36, John R Pierce wrote: Hi! ntpd won't make drastic changes in the time, if its too far off. its designed to stabilize the clock by making small changes in speeding it up or slowing it down, and not 'staircase' setting it absolutely. http://www.ntp.org/ntpfaq/NTP-s-algo.htm#

Re: [CentOS] shutdown -h doesn't

Answering Devin Reade (Thu, 15 Jan 2015 21:05:12 -0700): Hi! I've got a fresh CentOS 7 test machine, fully patched. The command: shutdown -h now surprisingly does not halt the machine. Instead it reboots it. WTF? Maybe it helps to poweroff explicitly? shutdown -hP now I had the sam