On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 5:13 PM, Mike Connors <[email protected]> wrote: > Denis Heidtmann wrote: >> How come it does not work: >> >> sudo ntpdate -b ntp.ubuntu.com >> 27 Nov 16:54:38 ntpdate[21522]: no server suitable for synchronization found >> >> sudo ntpdate -b pool.ntp.org >> 27 Nov 16:56:44 ntpdate[21523]: no server suitable for synchronization found >> > > My understanding is that -b option should be used only when calling > ntpdate from a startup file at boot time and not from the cli. Try > running it from the cli w/o -b.
My understanding is -b forces immediate update of the clock, rather than a rate adjustment. It should work from the command line. But: sudo ntpdate pool.ntp.org 27 Nov 17:19:29 ntpdate[22256]: no server suitable for synchronization found -Denis _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
