On Friday 09 December 2005 16:30, STYMA, ROBERT E (ROBERT) wrote: >> My TZ is "Europe mainland", the NTP server is clock.redhat.com, and > >I just ran: >service ntpd stop >ntpdate clock.redhat.com > 9 Dec 14:21:47 ntpdate[4366]: no server suitable for synchronization > found > >The ntpdate program did not like clock.redhat.com >I tried a different server and it was OK. > >Also NTP servers tend to run GMT (or UTC if you prefer) and >are timezone independent. > >I got 192.5.41.40 to work which is tick.usno.navy.mil. One really should be using pool.ntp.org, which is a round robin dynamic assignment, giving ntpd 3 servers to have as a choice of peer. -- Cheers, Gene People having trouble with vz bouncing email to me should use this address: <gene.heskett@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> which bypasses vz's stupid bounce rules. I do use spamassassin too. :-) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.