On Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 06:33:14PM -0700, Kevin Wang wrote:
On Tue, 12 Oct 2004 18:10:23 -0700, Nifty Hat Mitch mitch48@sbcglobal.net wrote:
It might be quicker than Paul expects. ...
So wall time can be very good inside of a min.
You sure the machine isn't setup to first ntpdate against the servers? shrug. my experience is from a redhat 7 or 8 derivation from a few years ago. I distinctly remember this because it was a real pain trying to debug ntpd because I had to wait 10 minutes to verify that my changes worked right.
It is true that "service ntpd start" does a list of things.
One of the things it does do is an ntpdate in advance of ntpd. It also interacts with the firewall which is while
I do use "service ntpd start" for no other reason than it does things I like with ip filters.. I could hack it and see how long it does take to sync ....