On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 6:22 PM, Joe Pruett <[email protected]> wrote: >> More info. I found entries in daemon.log: >> Nov 30 08:06:04 R2D4 ntpdate[3330]: step time server 69.63.177.217 >> offset 0.894285 sec >> ... >> Nov 30 11:57:14 R2D4 ntpdate[3434]: can't find host >> http://www.pool.ntp.org/zone/us >> Nov 30 11:57:14 R2D4 ntpdate[3434]: no servers can be used, exiting >> >> This seems to indicate that ntpdate was run before I made the changes >> to anacrontab and rebooted. Perhaps I did do it manually, but I do >> not recall doing that, and I can not find the command in my history. >> The only conclusion I can get from this is that ntpdate is already >> being run somewhere. I think I had better remove my changes to >> anacrontab, reboot, and look at daemon.log again. >> >> Also, it seem that http://www.pool.ntp.org/zone/us as suggested by >> Randall is not working. Did I miss-type? > > no, you misunderstood. you were supposed to go look at that web page > which would tell you what to put into your ntp config. > > terse, but confusing is our motto :-).
Ah--thanks for the clue-stick. But now that i look at that site, I see the following: "Make sure your computer's clock is set to something sensible (within a few minutes of the 'true' time) - you could use ntpdate pool.ntp.org". That is what I was planning, which precipitated Randall's comment (lazy, he said!). So I do not feel so bad in interpreting the advice on that site as I had. Seeing as I will not be using ntpd (my machine is typically not up long enough to make it a sensible way to correct the clock--correct me if I am wrong), I plan to use ntpdate. ntpdate uses data in /etc/default/ntpdate (ntpd not installed, hence no /etc/ntp.conf file. So now I have added to /etc/default/ntpdate the line NTPSERVERS="0.us.pool.ntp.org 1.us.pool.ntp.org 2.us.pool.ntp.org 3.us.pool.ntp.org" We will see if that keeps the binary men happy. Now to go back to the question of whether ntpdate is being run by default, buried somewhere in the bowels this system. -Denis _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
