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:
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> 
> 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
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> 
> 
> 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.

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