On Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 06:33:14PM -0700, Kevin Wang wrote: > 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. It is true that "service ntpd start" does a list of things. One of the things it does do is an ntpdate in advance of ntpd. It also interacts with the firewall which is while I do use "service ntpd start" for no other reason than it does things I like with ip filters.. I could hack it and see how long it does take to sync .... -- T o m M i t c h e l l May your cup runneth over with goodness and mercy and may your buffers never overflow.
