Gilbert Sebenste said: > On Mon, 12 Apr 2004, William Hooper wrote: > >> >> >> 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. > > I need to be clearer here. On the client machine (the one you are getting the socket error on), what is the output of: $ /usr/sbin/service ntpd status -- William Hooper