RE: ntp again

2003-02-06 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Wed, 5 Feb 2003, Patrick Nelson wrote: > What is step-tickers? I just put the time server on a line all by > itself, but don't really know how to check this. /etc/ntp/step-tickers contains nothing but server names, one per line. The file is parsed by /etc/init.d/ntpd when the service starts,

RE: ntp again

2003-02-05 Thread Patrick Nelson
Todd A. Jacobs wrote: - The asterisk means the clock has been declared a system peer--in other words, you are synchronized to that server. See /usr/share/doc/ntp-4.1.1/ntpq.htm for more info. I can't find any reference to an = sign, though, so I'm guessing that it means your

Re: ntp again

2003-02-05 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Wed, 5 Feb 2003, Patrick Nelson wrote: > Not sure what the "=" and "*" are. The asterisk means the clock has been declared a system peer--in other words, you are synchronized to that server. See /usr/share/doc/ntp-4.1.1/ntpq.htm for more info. I can't find any reference to an = sign, though

Re: NTP again

2002-02-02 Thread Bret Hughes
On Sat, 2002-02-02 at 05:11, James Pifer wrote: > I have a couple installations of Linux that I'm running as Guest OSes with > VMWare on Windows 2000. For some reason I cannot get ntpd to sync time with > my Linux machine that is a time server. Several people have tried to help > on this forum,

Re: NTP again

2002-02-02 Thread Devon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 02 February 2002 06:11 am, James Pifer wrote: > What does work is if I stop ntpd and run "ntpdate 192.168.1.2". I know > this isn't pretty, but is there a way I can schedule that process to > run every so often? Every 5 minutes, 60 minute