Problem with NTP.

[Andrew.Bridgeman at corusgroup.com]

I have a new Redhat version 4 server that was built last week. I have
edited the /etc/ntp.conf and made sure all the entries in the folder
/etc/ntp are the same as all the other Linux machines we have onsite. It
seems to find time sources as when I use ntpq -p it comes up with the name
and IP Addresses but I just cannot get it too sync i.e. has a * or + next
to server IP Addresses. I have pretty much been through the config on the
machine and the only two things I can see that are different is that it is
using itself for NIS as it is the NIS master and also in the
/etc/hosts.equiv file it has individual entries not + at trusted like all the
other machines. I do not think these differences are having an impact on
NTP not synchronising but just thought I would mention them anyway.

Does anyone know what I can try to solve this issue as the time on the
server needs to be the same as all the other machines.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Regards

Andrew Bridgeman

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