[PLUG] Syncing ntpd with public servers

[Ben Koenig]

-Ben


On Monday, June 2nd, 2025 at 2:43 PM, Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 2 Jun 2025, Paul Heinlein wrote:
> 
> > I know nothing about Slackware's ntpd setup, so in place of actual knowledge,
> > I'd suggest this (all as root):
> > 
> > rc.ntpd stop
> > ntpdate pool.ntp.org
> > rc.ntpd start
> > 
> > The ntpdate command will force the system's time to update, even if it's a
> > long way out of sync with standard time servers.
> 
> 
> Paul,
> 
> I thought that the restart command would update the pools and didn't
> consider stopping and starting...without the ntpdate command.
> 
> Many thanks,
> 
> Rich

Did that work? I thought the problem was that something wasn't being executed due to a permissions problem. 

-Ben