Re: [CentOS] Why the command 'service ntpd stop' cause the time reversed?

2015-02-12 Thread David chen
Hi guys, I don't use virtual machine. The 192.168.0.191 is an internal ntpd server configured by administrator, so i can not see what ntp server it synchronizes to or what is its time reference. But i have added a new line server 192.168.0.191 into file /etc/ntp.conf on ntpd client machines,

Re: [CentOS] Why the command 'service ntpd stop' cause the time reversed?

2015-02-12 Thread Andrew Holway
I've seen situations where people have put ntpdate in a cronjob to get around issues with big time jumps at boot or dodgy clocks under virtualization. There are much better solutions to this problem, so let us know if this is the case for you. put tinker panic 0 in your ntp.conf. This stops

Re: [CentOS] Why the command 'service ntpd stop' cause the time reversed?

2015-02-12 Thread John R Pierce
On 2/12/2015 12:27 AM, David chen wrote: i have added a new line server 192.168.0.191 into file /etc/ntp.conf on ntpd client machines, and the output to execute command ntpstat is as follows: synchronised to NTP server (192.168.0.191) at stratum 3 time correct to within 80 ms polling

[CentOS] Why the command 'service ntpd stop' cause the time reversed?

2015-02-11 Thread David chen
A shell script is deployed to synchronize time, the script is invoked hourly by crontab, and its content is as follows: #!/bin/bash service ntpd stop ntpdate 192.168.0.191 #it's a valid ntpd server in LAN service ntpd start chkconfig ntpd on Inspected the Linux log(Centos6.4 /var/log/messages),

Re: [CentOS] Why the command 'service ntpd stop' cause the time reversed?

2015-02-11 Thread John R Pierce
On 2/11/2015 5:53 PM, David chen wrote: A shell script is deployed to synchronize time, the script is invoked hourly by crontab, and its content is as follows: #!/bin/bash service ntpd stop ntpdate 192.168.0.191 #it's a valid ntpd server in LAN service ntpd start chkconfig ntpd on huh?

Re: [CentOS] Why the command 'service ntpd stop' cause the time reversed?

2015-02-11 Thread Jonathan Billings
On Feb 11, 2015, at 8:53 PM, David chen c77...@163.com wrote: The script should be executed at 14:00, the first line of the fragment also should indicate that the command 'service ntpd stop' have executed successfully, but why the second line timestamp(13:59:59) is less than the first

Re: [CentOS] Why the command 'service ntpd stop' cause the time reversed?

2015-02-11 Thread Peter Lawler
On 12/02/15 12:53, David chen wrote: but why the second line timestamp(13:59:59) is less than the first line's(14:00:01)? Total guess here, but I suspect what's happening is that the ntp server on your LAN that this client is getting the time from in the hardcoded 'ntpdate' command is about

Re: [CentOS] Why the command 'service ntpd stop' cause the time reversed?

2015-02-11 Thread John R Pierce
On 2/11/2015 11:12 PM, David chen wrote: Hi guys, Thanks for your reply. I originally used the following command to synchronize time: ntpdate 192.168.0.191 but got the error: ntpdate[16715]: the NTP socket is in use, exiting So i used the way of stopping ntpd service. Now I have known that using

Re: [CentOS] Why the command 'service ntpd stop' cause the time reversed?

2015-02-11 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
I've seen situations where people have put ntpdate in a cronjob to get around issues with big time jumps at boot or dodgy clocks under virtualization. There are much better solutions to this problem, so let us know if this is the case for you. K ___

Re: [CentOS] Why the command 'service ntpd stop' cause the time reversed?

2015-02-11 Thread John R Pierce
On 2/11/2015 11:47 PM, Kahlil Hodgson wrote: I've seen situations where people have put ntpdate in a cronjob to get around issues with big time jumps at boot or dodgy clocks under virtualization. There are much better solutions to this problem, so let us know if this is the case for you. NOT

Re: [CentOS] Why the command 'service ntpd stop' cause the time reversed?

2015-02-11 Thread David chen
Hi guys, Thanks for your reply. I originally used the following command to synchronize time: ntpdate 192.168.0.191 but got the error: ntpdate[16715]: the NTP socket is in use, exiting So i used the way of stopping ntpd service. Now I have known that using command ntpdate -u 192.168.0.191 can solve