ntpd on Red Hat

[Jerry Feldman]

I actually manually set the date time. ntpdate was rejecting the servers I 
gave it. 

On 4 Apr 2002 at 12:19, Derek Atkins wrote:

> Yea..  ntpd will refuse to adjust your clock if it's too far gone when
> it starts.  The fix is to run ntpdate before running ntpd.  Red Hat
> does this automatically if you populate /etc/sysconfig/<something>
> with the list of hosts to try at startup.  See /etc/rc.d/init.d/ntp
> for more information.
> 
> -derek
> 
> Frank Ramsay <fjr at marsdome.myip.org> writes:
> 
> > I had this problem for a while, my issue was the clock was too far off and 
> > ntpd refused to reset the time.  I don't know if this is your problem or not, 
> > but setting the time manually seemed to get ntpd running.
> > 
> > -fjr
> > 
> > 
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