On Wed, 28 Aug 2002, Howard Lowndes wrote: > I have an ntpd daemon running on one of my boxes and it is synch'ng with > external clocks just fine: -- snip -- > > but if I try to synch with it, even as the localhost I get the following: > > # ntpdate -bu localhost > 28 Aug 04:51:17 ntpdate[27869]: no server suitable for synchronization > found -- snip -- > > > Any ideas?
If you are running ntpdate on the same machine as the ntp server daemon you will have to stop the ntp server before ntpdate will set the time. I hope that helps. I got caught out on this a little while ago. Cheers, ram. -- w http://www.digitalmethod.org <blink>12:00</blink> -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
