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

jdow jdow at earthlink.net
Mon Apr 12 23:26:52 UTC 2004


From: "Gilbert Sebenste" <sebenste at weather3.admin.niu.edu>
> On Mon, 12 Apr 2004, duncan brown wrote:
>
> > well, you're not root... only root has /sbin/ in his $PATH by default.
> > try to 'su -' over to root and then type service ntpd status and you'll
> > see that it works =]
> >
> > -d
> >
> > Gilbert Sebenste said:
> > > On Mon, 12 Apr 2004, William Hooper wrote:
> > >
> > >> On the client machine (the one you are getting the socket error on),
> > >> what is the output of:
> > >>
> > >> $ /usr/sbin/service ntpd status
> > >
> > > "Command not found."
>
> Nope...I was root...didn't work.

Excuse me a DUH moment here.

Haven't you noticed that "/usr/sbin/" is a complete different directory
than "/sbin/"? Of course it could not find "service" in the wrong directory.

{^_^}





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