Time server...how to set it up on FC1?

William Hooper whooperhsd3 at earthlink.net
Mon Apr 12 19:55:05 UTC 2004


Gilbert Sebenste said:
> On Mon, 12 Apr 2004, William Hooper wrote:
>
>>
>> Gilbert Sebenste said:
>> > On Mon, 12 Apr 2004, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote:
>>
>> > Yep, all thse are correct. Then I type /etc/rc.d/init.d/ntpd restart
>> > and...I still get from other machines: "the NTP socket is in use,
>> exiting"
>> > I should be able to access it from ANY machine, the way I have it set
>> up
>> > now...
>>
>> Do you have ntpd running on the same machine you are trying to run the
>> ntpdate command on?
>
> Yep...
>
> ntp -U ntp -p /var/run/ntpd.pid -g
>
> is the daemon.

ntp is using the NTP socket, therefore ntpdate can't.  Use ntpdate before
starting the ntp daemon.

-- 
William Hooper





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