Thanks for your assistance. I have several options now. I installed rdate and found that I already had hwclock on the computer. For Ron Stodden: When I run ntpdate <FQDN> , it returns the time but says "the NTP socket in use, exiting" and does not update the computer clock. For Gary Bunker: I discovered I have the xntp package on the Mandrake CD and am going to uninstall the ntp package, install xntp and give it a test drive. Most of the files appear to be the same. I believe I have the permissions correct. ntp is running as root. For Civileme: I will add the lines you suggested to rc.local for boot up and am going to swap ntp for xntp just to see if it functions. I may just run the rc.local file now and then the way you do to keep the time right. I don't restart the computer very often. I am only interested in the clock being pretty good - doesn't have to be perfect. For Matt Stedman: Your suggestion (and Civileme's) work great. In one way or another I will be using this approach. I'm going to set up the cron job for the fun of it. For Russ Johnson: My clock was off about 8 minutes when I started trying to adjust it with LinuxConfig. I got to within 10 or so seconds after messing around with it for a while and decided that there must be some better way to get it set properly. Again, thanks to all for your helpful responses. Ken
