Thanks all.. I think all the oz ntp servers Mandrake provides are dud.. I ran ntpdate with the ntp server John gave me and it immediately updated my time. Thanks ! cheers, Rod ----------------------------------------------------------- Brought to you by a thunderbird, penguin, gnu and a camel
James Gregory wrote:
On Thu, 2004-09-16 at 11:23 +1000, 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. ???
Is ntpd running? Try 'service ntpd status', and if it's not running use 'ntsysv' to add it to your runlevel.
If you want to set your date once, stop ntpd ('service ntpd stop') and run 'ntpdate <your ntp server>'. It's recommended that you do that once after you set it up because ntpd will tend to adjust time little by little.
HTH,
James.
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