Time problem with ntpd

[Tim]

On Sat, 2006-10-07 at 18:08 +1300, Rob Brown-Bayliss wrote:
> So I tried the ntpdate command on a few ntp servers and was getting
> the same results, and then now I get:
> 
>  7 Oct 18:27:59 ntpdate[8452]: the NTP socket is in use, exiting
> 
> Even restarting ntpd has no effect and I get the same message.
> 
> Any clues?

You'd have to stop the NTP daemon before running ntpdate, then you can
start it again.  A gotcha with that one is accidentally ending up with
two NTP daemons running.  Check for that.

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