[PLUG] NTP

[linux-yug]

On Thu, 2008-11-20 at 08:08 -0800, Sandy Herring wrote:
> Circa 07:53:13 on Thu, 20 Nov 2008, linux-yug wrote: 
> > 
> > This is my output from ntpq -p...
> > 
> > But, delay and offset are both 0.000  I am guessing this is just dummy
> > out and it really didn't do anything..  I am not on line all the time..
> > 
> > Do I need to force it..
> > 
> > TIA
> > 
> > Linux-yug
> > 
> > 
> > linux-yug at suna:/proc$ ntpq -p
> >      remote           refid      st t when poll reach   delay   offset
> > jitter
> > ==============================================================================
> >  europium.canoni .INIT.          16 u  32h 1024    0    0.000    0.000 4000.00
> >  KERBEROS.MIT.ED .INIT.          16 u  32h 1024    0    0.000    0.000 4000.00
> >  mighty.poclabs. .INIT.          16 u  32h 1024    0    0.000    0.000 4000.00
> > *LOCAL(0)        LOCAL(0)        13 l   33   64  377    0.000    0.000 0.004
> 
> I'm guessing you need to force it since you don't have a persistent
> connection (if it hasn't sync'd since you posted).
> 
> Here are two things to check first...
> 
> (1) make certain ntpd is running
>     on CentOS, `service ntpd status'
> (2) the logs
>     on CentOS, `grep ntp /var/log/messages'
> 
> ymmv, depending on your distro.
> 
> You can force a sync with `ntpdate <server_name>'.
> 
> hth,
> Sandy

Thanks

I am running  Ubuntu so the scripts are in /etc/init.d

Linux-yug