Gui for configuring NTP

[Jon D. Slater]

Scot L. Harris wrote:

>On Fri, 2005-12-09 at 14:59, David Limon Romero wrote:
>  
>
>>El Viernes, 9 de Diciembre de 2005 1:36 PM, Paul Smith escribió:
>>
>>    
>>
>>>On 12/9/05, Terry Polzin <fox3ec208 at wideopenwest.com> wrote:
>>>      
>>>
>>>>>Is there some gui for configuring NTP?
>>>>>          
>>>>>
>>>>/usr/bin/system-config-time
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>Thanks, Terry. But getting
>>>
>>># /sbin/service ntpd restart
>>>Shutting down ntpd:                                        [  OK  ]
>>>ntpd: Synchronizing with time server:                      [FAILED]
>>>Starting ntpd:                                             [  OK  ]
>>>#
>>>
>>>whatever server I choose.
>>>      
>>>
>>Is your iptables open for NTP?
>>I have this:
>>-A INPUT -s 66.187.233.4 -p udp -m udp --sport 123 --dport 123 -j ACCEPT
>>-A INPUT -s 66.187.224.4 -p udp -m udp --sport 123 --dport 123 -j ACCEPT
>>
>>If you don't have something like that, try it, restart your iptables and ntp, 
>>it works for me.
>>
>>David
>>    
>>
>
>If he is just trying to sync his time to a NTP server I don't think he
>would need to open any ports.  If he is setting up an NTP service and
>will have other systems getting time from his system then he would need
>those ports opened up.
>
>I would suggest he check the log files and look at output from ntpstat
>to determine why his clock is not syncing.  Of course if the clock is
>way off it may take time to sync up.  He may want to manually set it
>then enable NTP to keep it updated.
>
>
>NTP used to muck with the firewall on its own.  I believe they fixed
>that finally.
>
>  
>
So I found a server that works with ntpdate, but when I put the service 
in either /etc/ntp.conf  or /etc/ntp/ntpservers it still doesn't work.

Am I putting the time server in the wrong file?
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/attachments/20051209/a172c28b/attachment-0002.html