On Tue, 12 Oct 2004 18:10:23 -0700, Nifty Hat Mitch <mitch48@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > It might be quicker than Paul expects. ... > > So wall time can be very good inside of a min. You sure the machine isn't setup to first ntpdate against the servers? shrug. my experience is from a redhat 7 or 8 derivation from a few years ago. I distinctly remember this because it was a real pain trying to debug ntpd because I had to wait 10 minutes to verify that my changes worked right. - Kevin