Gilbert Sebenste said: > On Mon, 12 Apr 2004, William Hooper wrote: > >> On the client machine (the one you are getting the socket error on), >> what >> is the output of: >> >> $ /usr/sbin/service ntpd status > > "Command not found." > > But if I do > > /sbin/service My fault (going from memory). > I get: > > "ntpd (pid XXXX) is running..." > ntpdate will not run on this machine until you stop ntpd. If you want to run ntpdate, you need to: $ /sbin/service ntpd stop $ /usr/sbin/ntpdate servername $ /sbin/service ntpd start -- William Hooper