This one time, at band camp, Rod Butcher wrote: >Mandrake 10 provides a user-friendly install for NTP time server >connection but it doesn't seem to actually adjust my time.. the modem >light flickers but time doesn't change. I've tried uadelaide.edu.au and >saard.net... I've set location to Sydney. >I read the howto at >http://www.edfac.unimelb.edu.au/ed-it_ops/internet/ntp/unix.shtml .. >downloaded australasia zoneinfo file from munnari.oz.au, run zic to >update /usr/share/zoneinfo/Australia/Sydney.. still no dice. ???
By default, ntpd doesn't immediately modify the time. If you're more than 1000ish seconds out, it'll complain in syslog and quit. Under that magic threshold and it may take about a day as ntpd gradually skews the clock to come back in sync. The solution is to run ntpdate first (which the Red Hat initscripts do) which will force your local clock to be the same as another. Alternatively, running latest versions of ntpd with the -g flag will tell ntpd to set the clock regardless. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://spacepants.org/jaq.gpg -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
