Chris wrote at 12-FEB-2007 18:12:06.46 On 2/12/07, Jacob (=Jouk) Jansen <joukj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> I have a problem with NTP on a FC6 machine connected to a adsl connection. >> When starting up the machine it tells me it fails to synch with the server >> (it started doing this one or two months ago) after that is sais that ntpd >> is started succesfully. I doubt this because I start noticing slight (1/2 >> minute) time differences with other machines. >> First I thought it was a firewall problem, but this weekend I connetcted on >> the same network connection another FC6 machine, with the same >> Firewall/Selinux and NTP settings. This machine did not give the error. >> The only difference between the machines is the actual hardware and on >> machine 1 more FC6 packages are installed. >> >> Where do/can I look to solve this problem? >> > >First try "service ntp restart" from a running system. If that fails, No problem doing thsi on the running system >chances are you have a faulty step tickers file. If it works, make >sure that DNS is available when ntp is started at boot time or that >/etc/ntp/step.tickers uses ip addresses instead of hostnames. Changing to ip numbers in the /etc/ntp/step.tickers to make the match exactly to the machine that works did not have any effect. Still I get the error at boot-time. I'm sure the network is acctivated before starting ntp. Any other ideas? Jouk Bush : All votes are equal but some votes are more equal than others. >------------------------------------------------------------------------------< Jouk Jansen joukj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Technische Universiteit Delft tttttttttt uu uu ddddddd Kavli Institute of Nanoscience tttttttttt uu uu dd dd Nationaal centrum voor HREM tt uu uu dd dd Lorentzweg 1 tt uu uu dd dd 2628 CJ Delft tt uu uu dd dd Nederland tt uu uu dd dd tel. 31-15-2782272 tt uuuuuuu ddddddd >------------------------------------------------------------------------------<