Re: ntp problem
On Sunday 04 March 2007, eng.waleed wrote:
Hi
I set my server time to NTP server using the command ntpdate but when I
restart the server the time return to the old state what I have to do
to keep the time connected to NTP after the restart?
BR
ntpdate is a separate utility from ntpd, which you should enable at boot
time in your default runlevel.
ntpd will call ntpdate once at startup to do a crash set of the time to
reasonably close, within a second or 2, and ntpd then fine tunes it to
hold it to very small fractions of a second, preferably
using 'pool.ntp.org'. It may take half an hour to achieve that close a
lock however.
However, if your locale settings are incorrect, or you do not run the
hardware clock on UTC/GMT, then all bets are off, so check that the local
timezone is set correctly. This will result in your seeing the local
time while the system itself runs on UTC. This is generally a desirable
state in that it aids the proper sorting and threading of email messages
by your email agent. There are exceptions of course if the incoming
posters clock setting is borked.
If you are running X, then there is generally a quite capable
configuration tool for the timezone settings lurking behind a right click
on the clock at the right end of the kickstart bar, usually on the bottom
of the screen. If, once set to the local timezone, the time is still
incorrect, there are tools to set the hardware clock, but I believe that
recent versions of the clocks toolkit do this for you, or at least have
the option to do it.
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