Gilbert Sebenste said: > On Mon, 12 Apr 2004, William Hooper wrote: > >> >> Gilbert Sebenste said: >> > On Mon, 12 Apr 2004, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote: >> >> > Yep, all thse are correct. Then I type /etc/rc.d/init.d/ntpd restart >> > and...I still get from other machines: "the NTP socket is in use, >> exiting" >> > I should be able to access it from ANY machine, the way I have it set >> up >> > now... >> >> Do you have ntpd running on the same machine you are trying to run the >> ntpdate command on? > > Yep... > > ntp -U ntp -p /var/run/ntpd.pid -g > > is the daemon. ntp is using the NTP socket, therefore ntpdate can't. Use ntpdate before starting the ntp daemon. -- William Hooper