I'm looking through the ntpd docs, and can't find a reference to -U in the ntpd man pages. It's something that fedora uses in its default setup: ntpd -U ntp -g That's what I see when I do a ps -a Now actually, I'm running an ntpd on a server that's supposed to be accepting time requests. Yet, when I send a ntpdate to that server, I get ntpdate[25004]: no server suitable for synchronization found If you setup your client server with a /etc/ntp/step-tickers file it runs ntpdate on startup, and then depends on ntpd to keep the server's time straight. Any hints? === Al