Re: [ntp:questions] Initial sync on starting ntpd with 20-21 minute time difference

2018-09-26 Thread Harlan Stenn
Karen Austin writes: > Hi, > > We have a RH 6.8 server with ntpd installed, but not currently running. > > The time on this server is showing around 20-21 minutes ahead. > > The server has been restarted and the messages log shows a successful ntpd st > art, but it is no longer running. This is

Re: [ntp:questions] Initial sync on starting ntpd with 20-21 minute time difference

2018-09-26 Thread Mike Cook
Karen, > > Before restarting ntpd you could use ntpdate to set the clock using the -B > option to slew, rather than step, the clock to the correct time before > restarting ntpd, but your offset is so large (1260 secs), that this may take > a long time to complete. > > On an Arm/Linux system I

Re: [ntp:questions] Initial sync on starting ntpd with 20-21 minute time difference

2018-09-26 Thread Mike Cook
Karen, > Le 24 sept. 2018 à 12:19, Karen Austin a écrit : > > Hi, > > We have a RH 6.8 server with ntpd installed, but not currently running. > > The time on this server is showing around 20-21 minutes ahead. > > The server has been restarted and the messages log shows a successful ntpd >

[ntp:questions] Initial sync on starting ntpd with 20-21 minute time difference

2018-09-25 Thread Karen Austin
Hi, We have a RH 6.8 server with ntpd installed, but not currently running. The time on this server is showing around 20-21 minutes ahead. The server has been restarted and the messages log shows a successful ntpd start, but it is no longer running. I would like to attempt to manually start