On Thursday 22 September 2005 09:38, Vikram Goyal wrote: > Hello, > > I am running FC4 with ntp-4.2.0.a.20040617-8, which I think is the > latest. > > I have selinux disabled. > > When starting ntpd it fails to sync with timeserver with the message: > > ntpd: Synchronizing with time server: FAILED > > Running ntpdate -d clock2.redhat.com the output is: > > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > [root@fc4host ~]# ntpdate -d clock2.redhat.com > 22 Sep 18:59:00 ntpdate[7023]: ntpdate 4.2.0a@xxxxxxxx Thu Apr 14 > 07:47:27 EDT 2005 (1) > Looking for host clock2.redhat.com and service ntp > host found : clock2.redhat.com snip This is not unusual and the ntp daemon will retry to sync usually within a minute or so (the server could be busy wirh too many requests). If it sees the server it will sync. Read the man ntpd page!
