using ntp

William Hooper whooperhsd3 at earthlink.net
Tue Feb 17 13:46:52 UTC 2004


Götz Reinicke said:

> after starting the ntpd "/etc/init.d/ntpd start"
>
> my ntp-Clients can't sync there time:
>
> [root at dali greinick]# ntpdate 172.17.1.251
> 17 Feb 12:26:09 ntpdate[19460]: no server suitable for synchronization
> found

ntpd and ntpdate can't be run at the same time.  To quote the man page:
"ntpdate will decline to set the date if an NTP server daemon (e.g., ntpd)
is running on the same host."


-- 
William Hooper





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