Gilbert Sebenste wrote: > "ntpdate [process-id]: the NTP socket is in use, exiting" See http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ntp/html/ntpdate.html for options to NTPdate. When NTPD is running on the same computer where you want to use NTPdate, you will want to use the options -q and -u. Björn Persson