FC4 NTPD problem

[jludwig]

On Thursday 22 September 2005 09:38, Vikram Goyal wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am running FC4 with ntp-4.2.0.a.20040617-8, which I think is the
> latest.
>
> I have selinux disabled.
>
> When starting ntpd it fails to sync with timeserver with the message:
>
> ntpd: Synchronizing with time server: FAILED
>
> Running ntpdate -d clock2.redhat.com the output is:
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
> [root at fc4host ~]# ntpdate -d clock2.redhat.com
> 22 Sep 18:59:00 ntpdate[7023]: ntpdate 4.2.0a at 1.1190-r Thu Apr 14
> 07:47:27 EDT 2005 (1)
> Looking for host clock2.redhat.com and service ntp
> host found : clock2.redhat.com
snip 
This is not unusual and the ntp daemon will retry to sync usually within a 
minute or so (the server could be busy wirh too many requests).
If it sees the server it will sync.

Read the man ntpd page!