On Mon, 2004-04-12 at 11:00, Gilbert Sebenste wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I'd like to have one of my machines be a local timeserver, pinging off our > campus time server, and then within my network, I'd like my interoffices > machines to ping off the local machine that will be a timeserver. I used > redhat-config-services to start "time", and then it sucessfully restarted. > > The problem: when I type "rdate -p MACHINE", it shows the correct time and > date from "MACHINE". But, when I do "ntpdate", I get: > > "ntpdate [process-id]: the NTP socket is in use, exiting" > > and, of course, it doesn't sync up. And, it also means that my time server > isn't being recognized by the time sync program on Redhat, when you > right-click on the clock, choose "adjust date and time", and then > choose the server. I manually added my interoffice machine, but > again, it just won't work. In /etc/hosts.allow, I allowed my local > machines an "ALL:ALL", but that didn't help. What am I doing > wrong? > > Thanks! > > ******************************************************************************* > Gilbert Sebenste ******** > (My opinions only!) ****** > Staff Meteorologist, Northern Illinois University **** > E-mail: gilbert@xxxxxxx *** > web: http://weather.admin.niu.edu ** > Work phone: 815-753-5492 * > ******************************************************************************* Edit the /etc/ntp/ntpservers file to point to the campus ntp server. Likewise modify all other systems to point to 'your' server. make sure the ntpd service is running on your server <chkconfig ntpd on>. I believe that's all that is needed. If not yell! -- jludwig <wralphie@xxxxxxxxxxx>
