On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 15:25 -0900, gary wrote: > After a fresh reinstall (fc4) I have gone through the archives a couple > of times (theaimesgroup) rereading ntp posts, looking for the solution > to getting ntp up and running. A solution that worked great for me (in > the past) was to add a " -u " or a " -U " on line 80 something of some > obscure file. ( wish I'd recorded this one ). Does anyone recall the > details of this fix ? > --gary > There is a /etc/sysconfig/ntpd that contains: # Drop root to id 'ntp:ntp' by default. Requires kernel >= 2.2.18. OPTIONS="-u ntp:ntp -p /var/run/ntpd.pid"