On Sat, 2006-10-07 at 18:08 +1300, Rob Brown-Bayliss wrote: > So I tried the ntpdate command on a few ntp servers and was getting > the same results, and then now I get: > > 7 Oct 18:27:59 ntpdate[8452]: the NTP socket is in use, exiting > > Even restarting ntpd has no effect and I get the same message. > > Any clues? You'd have to stop the NTP daemon before running ntpdate, then you can start it again. A gotcha with that one is accidentally ending up with two NTP daemons running. Check for that. -- (Currently running FC4, but testing FC5, if that's important.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
