Re: ntpdate: Can't find host 0.debian.pool.ntp.org

2014-04-18 Thread Amit
staticsafe staticsafe.ca> writes: > > On 4/17/2014 20:43, Amit wrote: > > Name or service not known (-2) > > Sounds like you have/had DNS issues. Perhaps the resolver(s) in > /etc/resolv.conf were unresponsive? > Thanks. I think I may have found the issue. nt

Re: ntpdate: Can't find host 0.debian.pool.ntp.org

2014-04-18 Thread Amit
Kumar Appaiah alumni.iitm.ac.in> writes: [snip] > > > Apr 17 17:36:22 test ntpdate[709]: Can't find host 2.debian.pool.ntp.org: > > Name or service not known (-2) > > Apr 17 17:36:22 test ntpdate[709]: no servers can be used, exiting > > Apr 17 17:36:45 tes

Re: ntpdate: Can't find host 0.debian.pool.ntp.org

2014-04-17 Thread staticsafe
On 4/17/2014 20:43, Amit wrote: > Name or service not known (-2) Sounds like you have/had DNS issues. Perhaps the resolver(s) in /etc/resolv.conf were unresponsive? -- staticsafe https://asininetech.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsub

Re: ntpdate: Can't find host 0.debian.pool.ntp.org

2014-04-17 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 12:43:28AM +, Amit wrote: > Have a minimal debian system and installed ntpdate. Time seems to be set > correctly but getting these messages: > > $ journalctl -b | grep ntp > Apr 17 17:36:22 test ntpdate[709]: Can't find host 0.debian.pool.ntp.org: &

ntpdate: Can't find host 0.debian.pool.ntp.org

2014-04-17 Thread Amit
Hello, Have a minimal debian system and installed ntpdate. Time seems to be set correctly but getting these messages: $ journalctl -b | grep ntp Apr 17 17:36:22 test ntpdate[709]: Can't find host 0.debian.pool.ntp.org: Name or service not known (-2) Apr 17 17:36:22 test ntpdate[709]: Can&#

Re: problem with ntpdate and squeeze

2011-04-18 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Leonardo Cuyar Morales put forth on 4/18/2011 9:13 AM: > I installed ntpdate pkg in squeeze but the command don't work The most common cause of this is that ntpdate won't execute if ntpd is running and thus holding the socket. For example: [root@greer]~$ ntpdate tick.wustl.edu 18

Re: problem with ntpdate and squeeze

2011-04-18 Thread Fabio DellaCorte
open /etc/default/ntpdate and change the NTP_SERVERS variable with your ntp server . After launch with "ntpdate-debian" . 2011/4/18 Estelmann, Christian > Check the config of your ntp-server. Is your client-IP allowed to access > the server? > Is there any firewall between y

Re: problem with ntpdate and squeeze

2011-04-18 Thread Estelmann, Christian
Check the config of your ntp-server. Is your client-IP allowed to access the server? Is there any firewall between your client and your server? ntp uses port 123 udp. Is the ntp-server pingable? Am 18.04.2011 16:57, schrieb Leonardo Cuyar Morales: I'm in root session. There's no an error messa

Re: problem with ntpdate and squeeze

2011-04-18 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Op 18-04-11 15:37, Estelmann, Christian schreef: > What do you mean with "don't work"? Any error messages? > > You have to run ntpdate as root. > snb01:~# /usr/sbin/ntpdate ntp0.rrze.uni-erlangen.de > 18 Apr 15:36:36 ntpdate[2968]: adjust time server 131.18

Re: problem with ntpdate and squeeze

2011-04-18 Thread Estelmann, Christian
What do you mean with "don't work"? Any error messages? You have to run ntpdate as root. snb01:~# /usr/sbin/ntpdate ntp0.rrze.uni-erlangen.de 18 Apr 15:36:36 ntpdate[2968]: adjust time server 131.188.3.220 offset -0.000236 sec Am 18.04.2011 16:13, schrieb Leonardo Cuyar Morale

problem with ntpdate and squeeze

2011-04-18 Thread Leonardo Cuyar Morales
I installed ntpdate pkg in squeeze but the command don't work -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/7803587.4980.1303136015546.JavaMail.root@zimbra

Re: Ntpdate Errors (previously posted, +)

2010-06-17 Thread Huang, Tao
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 11:42 PM, David Baron wrote: > > [snip] > > So .. I got rid of ntpdate altogether, installed the ntp daemon instead. I > still get the error messages, now with /usr/sbin/ntpdate does not exist (of > course). So I still need to find the original cron

Re: Ntpdate Errors (previously posted, +)

2010-06-17 Thread David Baron
On Tuesday 15 June 2010 18:42:02 David Baron wrote: > On Saturday 12 June 2010 23:02:11 David Baron wrote: > > > > I have no cron running ntpdate that I know of and there is no ntpdate > > > > entry in anacrontab. I run it in an rc.local type script on bootup. >

Re: Ntpdate Errors (previously posted, +)

2010-06-15 Thread Rob Owens
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 06:42:02PM +0300, David Baron wrote: > On Saturday 12 June 2010 23:02:11 David Baron wrote: > > > > I have no cron running ntpdate that I know of and there is no ntpdate > > > > entry in anacrontab. I run it in an rc.local type script on bootu

Re: Ntpdate Errors (previously posted, +)

2010-06-15 Thread David Baron
On Saturday 12 June 2010 23:02:11 David Baron wrote: > > > I have no cron running ntpdate that I know of and there is no ntpdate > > > entry in anacrontab. I run it in an rc.local type script on bootup. > > > Period. This run works. > > > > > > The on

Re: Ntpdate Errors (previously posted, +)

2010-06-12 Thread David Baron
> > I have no cron running ntpdate that I know of and there is no ntpdate > > entry in anacrontab. I run it in an rc.local type script on bootup. > > Period. This run works. > > > > The only thing I can think of is an obsolete webmin entry but I have not > > ru

Re: Ntpdate Errors (previously posted, +)

2010-06-12 Thread David Baron
> > I have no cron running ntpdate that I know of and there is no ntpdate > > entry in anacrontab. I run it in an rc.local type script on bootup. > > Period. This run works. > > > > The only thing I can think of is an obsolete webmin entry but I have not > > ru

Re: Ntpdate Errors (previously posted, +)

2010-06-11 Thread Aaron Toponce
On 06/10/2010 10:38 AM, David Baron wrote: > I get these periodically through the day: > > Cron /usr/sbin/ntpdate -s 216.200.93.8 (failed) > From: Cron Daemon > To: r...@dovidhalevi.homelinux.net > > command failed with exit status 1 Woah! Cron should NOT be running

Re: Ntpdate Errors (previously posted, +)

2010-06-10 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 10 Jun 2010 19:38:00 +0300 David Baron wrote: > I get these periodically through the day: > > Cron /usr/sbin/ntpdate -s 216.200.93.8 (failed) > From: Cron Daemon > To: r...@dovidhalevi.homelinux.net > > command failed with exit status 1 > > I have no

Ntpdate Errors (previously posted, +)

2010-06-10 Thread David Baron
I get these periodically through the day: Cron /usr/sbin/ntpdate -s 216.200.93.8 (failed) From: Cron Daemon To: r...@dovidhalevi.homelinux.net command failed with exit status 1 I have no cron running ntpdate that I know of and there is no ntpdate entry in anacrontab. I run it in an

Re: ntpdate cron error

2010-05-20 Thread Frank Van Damme
2010/5/14 Rob Owens : > > Not sure.  But do you think you should be running the ntp daemon instead > of using ntpdate in cron? > > -Rob I think that's indeed the way to go, yes. -- Frank Van Damme A: Because it destroys the flow of the conversation. Q: Why is it bad? A: No,

Re: ntpdate cron error

2010-05-14 Thread Rob Owens
On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 07:28:05PM +0300, David Baron wrote: > The initial ntpdate run from /etc/init.d succeeds. > > However, as of recent upgrades or site changes, a cron run of ntpdate fails: > > Cron ... /usr/sbin/ntpdate -s 216.200.93.8 (failed) > ... > command fail

Re: ntpdate cron error

2010-05-13 Thread Frank Van Damme
2010/5/13 David Baron : > The initial ntpdate run from /etc/init.d succeeds. > > However, as of recent upgrades or site changes, a cron run of ntpdate fails: > > Cron ... /usr/sbin/ntpdate -s 216.200.93.8 (failed) >  ... > command failed with exit status 1 > > I assu

ntpdate cron error

2010-05-13 Thread David Baron
The initial ntpdate run from /etc/init.d succeeds. However, as of recent upgrades or site changes, a cron run of ntpdate fails: Cron ... /usr/sbin/ntpdate -s 216.200.93.8 (failed) ... command failed with exit status 1 I assume that the IP shown is not available. I cannot find where this cron

Re: 30 Minutes (system time/ntpdate/dovecot)

2009-06-15 Thread David Baron
f this is the error, howclockfirst.sh is trying to read a one day + three hours locatime date. This ostensiblty fails (it takes the time, not the date). > > - Make sure /etc/default/ntp contains "NTPD_OPTS='-g'" so that you > can handle large clock offsets.

Re: 30 Minutes (system time/ntpdate/dovecot)

2009-06-14 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 04:50:23PM +0300, David Baron wrote: > Even more. I get a bootup error message failing to set date (and time) > to ... the following day + 3 hours!! You may have a bad system clock. That does happen on some older hardware or if a CMOS battery goes bad. I'd do the following

Re: 30 Minutes (system time/ntpdate/dovecot)

2009-06-14 Thread David Baron
>>>Has been happening quite a bit lately: >>>Problem with ntpdate. If and when it finally works, get a change of 10,800 >seconds ... that is 30 minutes. >>>The dovecot IMAPd server is unreadable. Restarting it yields a complaint >>>about 10,800 seconds of

Re: 30 Minutes (system time/ntpdate/dovecot)

2009-06-11 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 04:08:54PM +0300, David Baron wrote: > >>Has been happening quite a bit lately: > > >>Problem with ntpdate. If and when it finally works, get a change of 10,800 > >seconds ... that is 30 minutes. > > >>The dovecot IMAPd serve

Re: 30 Minutes (system time/ntpdate/dovecot)

2009-06-11 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Thu,11.Jun.09, 16:08:54, David Baron wrote: > OK, time to fix this. Since my system comes up with the "correct" time zone > but three hours later, it must be interpreting the stored (hw) time as GMT > and > adding the three hours (gmt+2 + daylight savings). > > How to fix this? If you onl

Re: 30 Minutes (system time/ntpdate/dovecot)

2009-06-11 Thread David Baron
>>Has been happening quite a bit lately: >>Problem with ntpdate. If and when it finally works, get a change of 10,800 >seconds ... that is 30 minutes. >>The dovecot IMAPd server is unreadable. Restarting it yields a complaint >>about 10,800 seconds of time, killin

Re: 30 Minutes (system time/ntpdate/dovecot)

2009-06-08 Thread David Baron
>Has been happening quite a bit lately: >Problem with ntpdate. If and when it finally works, get a change of 10,800 >seconds ... that is 30 minutes. >The dovecot IMAPd server is unreadable. Restarting it yields a complaint >about 10,800 seconds of time, killing itself now! Rest

Re: 30 Minutes (system time/ntpdate/dovecot)

2009-06-07 Thread John Hasler
The current chrony initscript looks for a defaultroute at startup. If one is found it puts chronyd online. The ip-up script is only used with PPP. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@list

Re: 30 Minutes (system time/ntpdate/dovecot)

2009-06-07 Thread Celejar
On Sun, 7 Jun 2009 10:59:50 -0400 Daryl Styrk wrote: ... > I've had nothing but great results with chrony. Aside from an issue of > chrony falling back to 127.127.1.1 when it cannot connect to a ntp server.. > Which happens often with my laptop as I move around during the day.. I > fixed tha

Re: 30 Minutes (system time/ntpdate/dovecot)

2009-06-07 Thread Daryl Styrk
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Jun 07, 2009 at 05:07:08PM +0300, David Baron wrote: > Has been happening quite a bit lately: > > Problem with ntpdate. If and when it finally works, get a change of 10,800 > seconds ... that is 30 minutes. > > The dovec

30 Minutes (system time/ntpdate/dovecot)

2009-06-07 Thread David Baron
Has been happening quite a bit lately: Problem with ntpdate. If and when it finally works, get a change of 10,800 seconds ... that is 30 minutes. The dovecot IMAPd server is unreadable. Restarting it yields a complaint about 10,800 seconds of time, killing itself now! Restarting it again works

Re: ntpdate[5498]: no server suitable for synchronization found

2007-06-19 Thread anup.behare
Thanks Rick. That was the problem of firewall. ~Anup - Original Message - From: "Rick Thomas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "anup" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Monday, June 18, 2007 2:03 PM Subject: Re: ntpdate[5498]: no server suitable for synchronizatio

Re: ntpdate[5498]: no server suitable for synchronization found

2007-06-18 Thread Rick Thomas
pt as fallows. 202.234.64.222 124.10.47.8 152.118.24.8 And run the ntpdate command, But still i am facing the same problem and got the following Error. [EMAIL PROTECTED] etc]# ntpdate -ud 152.118.24.8 18 Jun 10:08:55 ntpdate[8675]: ntpdate [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Oct 11 09:10:21 EDT 2004 (1) Lo

Re: ntpdate[5498]: no server suitable for synchronization found

2007-06-16 Thread Rick Thomas
I assume you are in Asia. If so, run the following script and examine the output. Pick three hosts that look best and use them in place of "3.asia.pool.ntp.org". Script: cut here--- for i in 0 1 2 3 do host $i.asia.pool.ntp.org done | while read x echo

Re: ntpdate[5498]: no server suitable for synchronization found

2007-06-16 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/16/07 07:35, Michael Marsh wrote: On 6/16/07, anup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I am trying to setup NTP client inside my network using public time server. I used " ntpdate -ud 3.asia.pool.ntp.org " it gives the following error messaage.. [...] 16 Jun 15:20:26 ntpdate[

Re: ntpdate[5498]: no server suitable for synchronization found

2007-06-16 Thread Michael Marsh
On 6/16/07, anup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I am trying to setup NTP client inside my network using public time server. I used " ntpdate -ud 3.asia.pool.ntp.org " it gives the following error messaage.. [...] 16 Jun 15:20:26 ntpdate[5498]: no server suitable for synchronizati

Re: ntpdate[5498]: no server suitable for synchronization found

2007-06-16 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Sat, Jun 16, 2007 at 03:29:33PM +0530, anup wrote: > I am trying to setup NTP client inside my network using public time server. > I used " ntpdate -ud 3.asia.pool.ntp.org " it gives the following error > messaage.. > > 202.234.64.222: Server dropped: no data Can

ntpdate[5498]: no server suitable for synchronization found

2007-06-16 Thread anup
I am trying to setup NTP client inside my network using public time server. I used " ntpdate -ud 3.asia.pool.ntp.org " it gives the following error messaage.. # ntpdate -ud 3.asia.pool.ntp.org 16 Jun 15:20:21 ntpdate[5498]: ntpdate [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Oct 11 09:10:21 EDT 2004 (1

Re: NTPDate Broken? (SOLVED)

2007-03-11 Thread Franck Joncourt
; servers in your /etc/ntp.conf and your /etc/default/ntpdate files, > and mention all three as trusted in your firewall DMZ. > You may find one here, as well : http://ntp.isc.org/bin/view/Servers/WebHome -- Franck Joncourt http://www.debian.org http://smhteam.info/wiki/ GPG server : pgpkey

Re: NTPDate Broken? (SOLVED)

2007-03-11 Thread Rick Thomas
On Mar 11, 2007, at 9:18 AM, David Baron wrote: On Saturday 10 March 2007, debian-user-digest- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone had a problem with the more recent ntpdate from Sid? Fix, Workaround? Cannot find suitable server. Works for me just fine with these NTP servers. I have not

Re: NTPDate Broken?

2007-03-11 Thread dave
on Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 08:33:14PM -0800 Paul Johnson wrote: > David Baron wrote in Article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted > to gmane.linux.debian.user: > > > Has anyone had a problem with the more recent ntpdate from Sid? > > Fix, Workaround? > > Have you tried u

Re: NTPDate Broken? (SOLVED)

2007-03-11 Thread David Baron
On Saturday 10 March 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Has anyone had a problem with the more recent ntpdate from Sid? > > > Fix, Workaround? > > > > > > Cannot find suitable server. > > > > Works for me just fine with these NTP servers. >

Re: NTPDate Broken?

2007-03-10 Thread Paul Johnson
David Baron wrote in Article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted to gmane.linux.debian.user: > Has anyone had a problem with the more recent ntpdate from Sid? > Fix, Workaround? Have you tried using chrony instead? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: NTPDate Broken?

2007-03-10 Thread Franck Joncourt
On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 12:59:07PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 03/10/07 12:34, David Baron wrote: > > Has anyone had a problem with the more recent ntpdate from Sid? > > Fix, Workaround? > > > > Cannot find suitable server. > > Works for me just fine with th

Re: NTPDate Broken?

2007-03-10 Thread Ron Johnson
On 03/10/07 12:34, David Baron wrote: > Has anyone had a problem with the more recent ntpdate from Sid? > Fix, Workaround? > > Cannot find suitable server. Works for me just fine with these NTP servers. Occasionally, though, it fails when I have router issues. > > # Th

NTPDate Broken?

2007-03-10 Thread David Baron
Has anyone had a problem with the more recent ntpdate from Sid? Fix, Workaround? Cannot find suitable server. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: executing ntpdate on boot - seems it doesn't work

2007-02-19 Thread Rolf Bode-Meyer
Ubuntu users'. I'm sorry for this abuse. If it manually works, maybe you can add more lines to your /etc/network/if-up/ntpdate file in order to track down where the probleme comes from. Inserting echos and log_daemon_msg into the ntpdate script wasn't that useful and the results co

Re: executing ntpdate on boot - seems it doesn't work

2007-02-18 Thread Franck Joncourt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rick Thomas wrote: > > On Feb 17, 2007, at 5:34 PM, Franck Joncourt wrote: > >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Rolf Bode-Meyer wrote: >>> Hi! >> >> Hi, >> >>&

Re: executing ntpdate on boot - seems it doesn't work

2007-02-17 Thread Rick Thomas
On Feb 17, 2007, at 5:34 PM, Franck Joncourt wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rolf Bode-Meyer wrote: Hi! Hi, I currently try to figure out if ntpdate is called on boottime in my system or not. It *should* be called when the network interfaces come up (ifup

Re: executing ntpdate on boot - seems it doesn't work

2007-02-17 Thread Franck Joncourt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rolf Bode-Meyer wrote: > Hi! Hi, > I currently try to figure out if ntpdate is called on boottime in my > system or not. > > It *should* be called when the network interfaces come up (ifup), > therefore the /etc/network/if-up.d/

executing ntpdate on boot - seems it doesn't work

2007-02-17 Thread Rolf Bode-Meyer
Hi! I currently try to figure out if ntpdate is called on boottime in my system or not. It *should* be called when the network interfaces come up (ifup), therefore the /etc/network/if-up.d/ntpdate is present. And it's indeed called when I manually call ifup -a after booting--an entry i

Re: how does ntpdate work ?

2006-10-19 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 18.10.06 16:42, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 10/18/06 14:36, harm wrote: > > i think i should read those /usr/share/doc files more often :p > > > > however, ntpdate is only started once (on bootup) and it never needs to > > resync afterwords ? since its not in ps aux

Re: how does ntpdate work ?

2006-10-18 Thread John Hasler
Dave Dawson writes: > but if you are using dialup, you could run a crontab every day to execute > ntpdate instead Or you could install Chrony, which does what Ntp does and works fine with dialup. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "

Re: how does ntpdate work ?

2006-10-18 Thread dtutty
On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 08:08:02PM +, David Dawson wrote: > but if you are using dialup, you could run a crontab every day to execute > ntpdate instead Better still is chrony. It polls ntp sources when you're online, skewing the system time instead of jumping it like n

Re: how does ntpdate work ?

2006-10-18 Thread David Dawson
harm wrote: > in good old sarge there was a script in /etc/init.d/ that would check the > clock with the ntp server(s) in /etc/default/ntpdate. But how does it > works in Etch, since the init.d script is gone ? Of course i can execute > ntpdate ntp.xs4all.nl but if i want it to sync

Re: how does ntpdate work ?

2006-10-18 Thread harm
hose /usr/share/doc files more often :p>> however, ntpdate is only started once (on bootup) and it never needs to> resync afterwords ? since its not in ps aux... Of course it's not listed in "ps aux" because it's not a continuous runner like ntp.I put this in my root cr

Re: how does ntpdate work ?

2006-10-18 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/18/06 14:36, harm wrote: > i think i should read those /usr/share/doc files more often :p > > however, ntpdate is only started once (on bootup) and it never needs to > resync afterwords ? since its not in ps aux... Of course it

Re: how does ntpdate work ?

2006-10-18 Thread harm
apt-get install ntp i will just asume that wil sync every Xtime. Lets read the manpage now, ok :)thnxOn 10/18/06, Roberto C. Sanchez < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 09:36:08PM +0200, harm wrote: > i think i should read those /usr/share/doc files more often :p>> h

Re: how does ntpdate work ?

2006-10-18 Thread Andrew Perrin
From another of those pesky /usr/share/doc files: che:/usr/share/doc/ntpdate# cat README.Debian ... Note that ntpdate is *not* really intended to be used by hosts with good network connectivity. The "ntp" package, which provides a persistent daemon that does a better job of keeping s

Re: how does ntpdate work ?

2006-10-18 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 09:36:08PM +0200, harm wrote: > i think i should read those /usr/share/doc files more often :p > > however, ntpdate is only started once (on bootup) and it never needs to > resync afterwords ? since its not in ps aux... > If you want something to resy

Re: how does ntpdate work ?

2006-10-18 Thread harm
i think i should read those /usr/share/doc files more often :p however, ntpdate is only started once (on bootup) and it never needs to resync afterwords ? since its not in ps aux... On 10/18/06, Andrew Perrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: According to /usr/share/doc/ntpdate/changlog.Deb

Re: how does ntpdate work ?

2006-10-18 Thread Andrew Perrin
According to /usr/share/doc/ntpdate/changlog.Debian.gz: * npdate is no longer started from an init script but instead by ifup (closes: #56499, #245338, #312576) * Run ntpdate from ifup in the background (closes: #321759, #375280, #382543) The script is now in /etc/network/if-up.d

how does ntpdate work ?

2006-10-18 Thread harm
in good old sarge there was a script in /etc/init.d/ that would check the clock with the ntp server(s) in /etc/default/ntpdate. But how does it works in Etch, since the init.d script is gone ? Of course i can execute ntpdate ntp.xs4all.nl but if i want it to sync every 24hrs should i put it in

Re: ntpdate foibles?

2006-04-11 Thread David Baron
On Tuesday 11 April 2006 13:02, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > On 05.04.06 18:46, David Baron wrote: > > There was a kernel bug to this effect but apparently not relevant to my > > configuration. When ntpdate cannot access a ntp server, the time gets > > placed two (thr

Re: ntpdate foibles?

2006-04-11 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 05.04.06 18:46, David Baron wrote: > There was a kernel bug to this effect but apparently not relevant to my > configuration. When ntpdate cannot access a ntp server, the time gets > placed two (three with daylight time) hours fast. I am two hours later > than Grenwich. It does n

Re: ntpdate foibles?

2006-04-05 Thread Paul Johnson
On Wednesday 05 April 2006 08:46, David Baron wrote: > If I keep trying until it succedes, then time gets set correctly. Why use ntpdate when chrony synchronizes your clock via NT Pand isn't a pain in the ass about it? -- Paul Johnson Email and IM (XMPP & Google Talk): [EMAIL PROTE

ntpdate foibles?

2006-04-05 Thread David Baron
There was a kernel bug to this effect but apparently not relevant to my configuration. When ntpdate cannot access a ntp server, the time gets placed two (three with daylight time) hours fast. I am two hours later than Grenwich. It does not matter if the hwclock is set utc or local. If I keep

Re: ntpdate -> configuration

2005-12-27 Thread Glenn English
e German PTB (compareable to > "time.gov") and offering a very accurate time (atomic-clock). According to man ntpdate, all you need to do is specify the server as the last argument to ntpdate on the command line. Man goes on to say that you could get cron to run ntpdate every so often, but w

Re: ntpdate -> configuration

2005-12-27 Thread John Hasler
Michael Przysucha writes: > I have a very unstable hw-clock and need to synchronize it every apx. 60 > minutes to avoid differences of more than 20 sec. I suggest that you install either chrony or ntp-simple. They will take care of your clock for you. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

RE: ntpdate inside Debian vservers

2005-10-26 Thread Rabbie Zalaf
ain. Regards, Rabbie. -Original Message- From: Maurits van Rees [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2005 5:31 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: ntpdate inside Debian vservers On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 02:42:31AM +1000, Rabbie Zalaf wrote: > I have a few

Re: ntpdate inside Debian vservers

2005-10-26 Thread Maurits van Rees
On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 02:42:31AM +1000, Rabbie Zalaf wrote: > I have a few vservers running on my box and all of the vservers times are > off (way off I might add). I have a virtual host with Bytemark. Maybe what they have to say about setting the time helps you: http://www.bytemark.co.uk/supp

ntpdate inside Debian vservers

2005-10-26 Thread Rabbie Zalaf
:~#   and when I try to use ntpdate:   ccs1:~# ntpdate au.pool.ntp.org 26 Oct 16:41:28 ntpdate[21956]: step-systime: Operation not permitted ccs1:~#   Obviously I already am root when I perform either of these commands. My real server’s date/time is perfect and ntpdate works fine there. Its

Re: boot stalls on ntpdate [was bootlog, control of modules]

2005-10-04 Thread Marty
bit of a stressful weekend). COmmenting out a bunch of modules helped my problems, thanks much for that help folks. I notice now that bootup is stalling on ntpdate. Here's what I see on bootlog... Tue Oct 4 21:13:32 2005: Running ntpdate to synchronize clockError : Temporary failure in name

Re: boot stalls on ntpdate [was bootlog, control of modules]

2005-10-04 Thread Matt Price
oot, bit of a stressful weekend). COmmenting out a bunch of modules helped my problems, thanks much for that help folks. I notice now that bootup is stalling on ntpdate. Here's what I see on bootlog... Tue Oct 4 21:13:32 2005: Running ntpdate to synchronize clockError : Temporary failure in

Re: ntpdate & script to update host at random time

2005-06-03 Thread Bill Marcum
On Fri, Jun 03, 2005 at 11:36:41AM -0400, jmr_071769 wrote: > hello again with a debian question. > > i'd like to be able to have a few machines 'apt-get update' themselves > at a random time near/around midnight. how can i go about this with > another easy script? > I almost forgot, in my previo

Re: ntpdate & script to update host at random time

2005-06-03 Thread Bill Marcum
On Fri, Jun 03, 2005 at 11:36:41AM -0400, jmr_071769 wrote: > hello again with a debian question. > > i'd like to be able to have a few machines 'apt-get update' themselves > at a random time near/around midnight. how can i go about this with > another easy script? > A random time around midnight

Re: ntpdate & script to update host at random time

2005-06-03 Thread Marty
jmr_071769 wrote: hello again with a debian question. i'd like to be able to have a few machines 'apt-get update' themselves at a random time near/around midnight. how can i go about this with another easy script? tia! -jeff See my message in debian-user archives with the subject "My local

Re: ntpdate & script to update host at random time

2005-06-03 Thread jmr_071769
jmr_071769 wrote: > hello again with a debian question. > > i'd like to be able to have a few machines 'apt-get update' themselves > at a random time near/around midnight. how can i go about this with > another easy script? > > tia! > > -jeff >

ntpdate & script to update host at random time

2005-06-03 Thread jmr_071769
hello again with a debian question. i'd like to be able to have a few machines 'apt-get update' themselves at a random time near/around midnight. how can i go about this with another easy script? tia! -jeff -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troubl

Re: ntpdate doesn't fix bogus times!

2004-04-08 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Thu, 08 Apr 2004, Pigeon wrote: > On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 08:30:29PM -0700, William Ballard wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 05:04:46AM +0200, Christian Schnobrich wrote: > > > IIRC, ntpdate (and ntpd and chrony) will not set your clock if it is off > > > by too muc

Re: ntpdate doesn't fix bogus times!

2004-04-08 Thread Pigeon
On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 08:30:29PM -0700, William Ballard wrote: > On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 05:04:46AM +0200, Christian Schnobrich wrote: > > IIRC, ntpdate (and ntpd and chrony) will not set your clock if it is off > > by too much. I think by default it is 1 hour (3600 sec) f

Re: ntpdate doesn't fix bogus times!

2004-04-08 Thread Pigeon
On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 11:47:50PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > Best not to run ntpdate to step the clock while ntpd is running or > confusion would result. So stop ntpd first and start it again > afterward. ...in fact, you have to stop ntpd, or else ntpdate won't work. -- Pige

Re: Chrony vs ntpd (was Re: ntpdate doesn't fix bogus times!)

2004-04-08 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
eference (such as system logs) somewhere, ntp is overkill. Ntpdate and Chrony, used to sync the system up once a day to a high stratum (> 2) timeserver are a better idea for most people, and much better for the whole time keeping structure. For those, Chrony looks like it is simpler to set up, and

Re: Chrony vs ntpd (was Re: ntpdate doesn't fix bogus times!)

2004-04-08 Thread Lance Simmons
* Kirk Strauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [040408 09:05]: > > I occasionally hear someone say that chrony is better than ntpd, but > I've never heard the reasons why. I tried setting up ntp and found it difficult, but tried setting up chrony and found it easy. Since I'm just running a few boxes at h

Chrony vs ntpd (was Re: ntpdate doesn't fix bogus times!)

2004-04-08 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2004-04-08T03:04:46Z, Christian Schnobrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Oh, and... everybody suggests chrony as a far superior and more stable > solution than ntpd. More stable? In what way? Not once in the years that I've used ntpd have I ever had problems with it. I occasionally hear som

Re: ntpdate doesn't fix bogus times!

2004-04-07 Thread Bob Proulx
Chris Horn wrote: > cc: me on your reply, as I'm not subscribed)! > Running '/etc/init.d/ntpdate start' does not fix the problem. What do the logs say in /var/log/syslog? I suspect you have a firewall in the way. Try running ntpdate interactively. /etc/init.d/ntp sto

Re: ntpdate doesn't fix bogus times!

2004-04-07 Thread William Ballard
On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 05:04:46AM +0200, Christian Schnobrich wrote: > IIRC, ntpdate (and ntpd and chrony) will not set your clock if it is off > by too much. I think by default it is 1 hour (3600 sec) for all three of > them. ntpdate just adjusted my clock which was off by 3602 second

Re: ntpdate doesn't fix bogus times!

2004-04-07 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Thursday 08 April 2004 03:04 am, Christian Schnobrich wrote: >I can merely point you to the (quite exhaustive) documentation you get >when installing ntp-doc. As quick fix, you may manually set the time to >something that's reasonably close and re-run ntpdate. Sorry, this jus

Re: ntpdate doesn't fix bogus times!

2004-04-07 Thread Christian Schnobrich
e -u && date > Wed Apr 7 22:16:37 UTC 2004 > Wed Apr 7 18:16:37 EDT 2004 [..] > Running '/etc/init.d/ntpdate start' does not fix the problem. Please help (and > cc: me on your reply, as I'm not subscribed)! IIRC, ntpdate (and ntpd and chrony) will not set your

Re: ntpdate doesn't fix bogus times!

2004-04-07 Thread Jeff Elkins
/New_York > ># l /etc/localtime >lrwxr-xr-x1 root root 30 Apr 7 18:11 /etc/localtime -> > /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Eastern > ># cat /etc/timezone >US/Eastern > >Running '/etc/init.d/ntpdate start' does not fix the problem. Please help > (and

ntpdate doesn't fix bogus times!

2004-04-07 Thread Chris Horn
imezone US/Eastern Running '/etc/init.d/ntpdate start' does not fix the problem. Please help (and cc: me on your reply, as I'm not subscribed)! -- Chris Horn 703.413.1100 x5193 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ntpdate leap year

2004-03-03 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 07:02:15PM -0700, Nate Duehr wrote: > >Surely "ntp-simple" is a "real" NTP client. I mean, it's *the* NTP > >software package (i.e., the official reference implementation of the > >NTPv4 protocol). The "-simple" part just mean

Re: ntpdate leap year

2004-03-03 Thread Nate Duehr
On Mar 3, 2004, at 5:12 PM, Kevin Buhr wrote: Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Get a real NTP client? chrony didn't screw up... Surely "ntp-simple" is a "real" NTP client. I mean, it's *the* NTP software package (i.e., the official reference implementation of the NTPv4 protocol). The "-

Re: ntpdate leap year

2004-03-03 Thread Kevin Buhr
Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Get a real NTP client? chrony didn't screw up... Surely "ntp-simple" is a "real" NTP client. I mean, it's *the* NTP software package (i.e., the official reference implementation of the NTPv4 protocol). The "-simple" part just means it doesn't include

Re: ntpdate leap year

2004-03-02 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 06:39:53PM -0900, Greg Madden wrote: > I use ntp-simpl. This is a leap year, 29 days in February, but ntp is > short by one day. I can adjust the date manually but when ntp runs it > sets me back a day. Is there away to tell n

Re: ntpdate leap year

2004-03-01 Thread Kevin Buhr
to a single NTP server, that server may be misconfigured (or may have handled the leap year incorrectly). To see if this is the case, install the "ntpdate" package if you haven't already. Try setting the correct date and time manually, then run: ntpdate -q time.windows.com ntp.gci.

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