OBTW, I forgot to mention, one of the most common uses of ntpdate is in the root crontab file, for example:
From the shell:
Also, here is a site dedicated to helping you find a valid time server for your site:
Quote:
The pool.ntp.org project is a big virtual cluster of timeservers providing reliable easy to use NTP service for millions of clients.
The pool is being used by millions or tens of millions of systems around the world. It's the default "time server" for most of the major Linux distributions and many networked appliances (see information for vendors).
Hello,
I'm looking for assitance on setting up network time protocol on my HP-ux boxes.
I have edit the .conf file accordingly. And /etc/services. But whenever I try and start the service nothing happens at all. No error message, nothing.
I have a SCO box as a time server and I wish... (0 Replies)
Hi experts,
I've a master server which sync to ntp time server daily by using xntpd daemon. Then my client servers will use ntpdate through cron job to synchronize the time hourly. (By using ntpupdate -s -B 'master server')
My question is, now I'll need to synchronize to a oracle server which... (2 Replies)
Hi Guys,
A weird problem. I have disabled ntpd daemon on a HP server and placed
ntpdate in crontab instead and redirected the log to a file. This command
in cron synchronizes the server with a local time server every 15 minutes.
The weird part is that on 3 specific times (5:00 am, 10:00 am,... (2 Replies)
Hi there,
Hi have a group of computers + a server (all debians) connected to each other on a LAN.
For some reasons that I've not decided and that I can't change, the computers cannot connect to the net. Moreover, the server has no ntp service.
Though, I need to find a way of setting all... (4 Replies)
as advised and documented, i'm trying to use the ntpd -gq instead of ntpdate. The result is that clock not set. as below. However ntpdate is working ok and had set the clock correctly
this is the ntp.conf file:
# cat /etc/ntp.conf
logfile /var/log/ntp.log
driftfile /var/lib/ntp/drift... (6 Replies)
Hi,
Could somebody please explain me.
why is it necessary to execute the "ntpdate" command only when ntp daemon is stopped , and also the probabale solution to reduce the high offset value.
Thanks !!
Laxxi (4 Replies)
Hi all. I'm new to this forum and Linux in general. Last month I ran into a problem at work and never got around to solving it.
We have an old Linux workstation that synchs its time to a Windows XP machine running w32time. The version of ntpdate is 4.2.0.a running on Linux kernel 2.6.17.6. It... (0 Replies)