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 much. I think by default it is

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) for all three of > > them

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. -- Pigeon Be kind to pige

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

2004-04-08 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Thu, 08 Apr 2004, Kirk Strauser wrote: > 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. For certain situations, yes. Chrony is much better for high latency, inconstant

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 stop# or /etc/init.d/ntp

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 seconds 7 Apr 1

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 just doesn't work. A

Re: ntpdate doesn't fix bogus times!

2004-04-07 Thread Christian Schnobrich
On Don, 2004-04-08 at 04:20, Chris Horn wrote: > Okay, I'm completely lost on this one. I have one box that can't tell time > and I don't know what's the matter with it. > > when UTC is around Thu Apr 8 02:16:20 UTC 2004, this machine reports: > > # date -u && date > Wed Apr 7 22:16:37 UTC 200

Re: ntpdate doesn't fix bogus times!

2004-04-07 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Thursday 08 April 2004 02:20 am, Chris Horn wrote: >Okay, I'm completely lost on this one. I have one box that can't tell time >and I don't know what's the matter with it. > >when UTC is around Thu Apr 8 02:16:20 UTC 2004, this machine reports: > ># date -u && date >Wed Apr 7 22:16:37 UTC 200

ntpdate doesn't fix bogus times!

2004-04-07 Thread Chris Horn
Okay, I'm completely lost on this one. I have one box that can't tell time and I don't know what's the matter with it. when UTC is around Thu Apr 8 02:16:20 UTC 2004, this machine reports: # date -u && date Wed Apr 7 22:16:37 UTC 2004 Wed Apr 7 18:16:37 EDT 2004 # hwclock --show --utc Wed Ap