Can't get Correct Time in Fedora 8

[Paul W. Frields]

On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 07:32:44PM -0500, Todd Zullinger wrote:
> Paul W. Frields wrote:
> > su -                                # provide root password
> > service ntpd stop
> > ntpdate 0.fedora.pool.ntp.org       # or your server of choice
> > service ntpd start
> > exit
> 
> I presume you're stopping ntpd because otherwise ntpdate complains
> that "the NTP socket is in use, exiting"?
> 
> To avoid that, just use the -u option to ntpdate and it will be able
> to update while ntpd is running.

Good tip, thanks Todd!

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