Questions tagged [ntpdate]
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Where can I see ntpd working status (log or message)
In my server the ntpd service is started but it does not seem to work.
I can find nothing according to this ( Where are the ntpd log file located, and how can we configure the ntpd log file path? ) and this ( Where can I look up for the ntpd log? )…
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How should I manage and troubleshoot NTP issues?
For some time now I've been fighting with some NTP issues in my company's network and I'm having a hard time to understand how the commands combine with the service.
For example:
In the server's /etc/ntp.conf there's a line:
server…
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Itai Ganot
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ntp is not syncing on centos server but gets response from remote server
I have googled for days before asking and I feel like I have tried everything but ntp is still not updating the time of the system automatically. I have left it running for days and still I get the following output:
[root@server1 etc]# ntpq -p
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Markus Tenghamn
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Clock skew on my VPS server
I am having a problem with the time on my VPS hosted at Rackspace. Its running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4. Date commands gives a time which is 11 minutes ahead of the actual time.
I am running ntpd and my /etc/ntp.conf is as per the 2nd option…
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enable/disable ntp service on ubuntu 12.04
Our application runs on Ubuntu 12.04 Precise. On this server, we have both ntpdate and ntp.
How to enable and disable the NTP service on-demand? I tried
# sudo update-rc.d -f ntp remove/default
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# sudo update-rc.d ntp enable/disable…
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ntpdate setting incorrect date after boot
I have a few Debian XEN virtual machines and upgraded them to wheezy(I need the 3.2 kernel for a project). Everything was okay until I rebooted on of the machines.
My current problem is, that ntpdate sets a wrong date after booting, which has severe…
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ntpdate wrong date
Hi all I have an ubuntu8 server where I have problems with date.
My current date (Europe/Rome) is 9:35
If I do date print me 11:12:34
I have seen my ntp.conf is:
server 0.ubuntu.pool.ntp.org
server 1.ubuntu.pool.ntp.org
server…
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ntpdate and firewall: no server suitable for synchronization found
I'm behind a firewall and only have access to ports 80 and port 443.
How can I sync my system's clock?
Here's the command I issue:
sudo ntpdate -u 1.debian.pool.ntp.org
But I keep getting the following error:
no server suitable for synchronization…
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ntpdate cannot receive data
I have a problem where running ntpdate on my server doesn't return any data therefore I get the following error:
[root@server etc]# ntpdate -d -u -v time.nist.gov
12 Apr 01:10:09 ntpdate[32072]: ntpdate 4.2.2p1@1.1570-o Fri Nov 18 13:21:21 UTC 2011…
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Server Time is *WAY* Off
The time on my server is about 19 hours behind and I cannot for the life of me figure out how to synchronize it. I did follow the steps here, and this is the output:
[root@ip-72-167-39-231 ~]# /sbin/service ntpd stop
Shutting down ntpd: …
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Thomas Thorogood
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Time cron not working
10 * * * * /usr/sbin/ntpdate pool.ntp.org >/dev/null 2>&1
The idea is to sync time every 10 minutes.
However im waiting now for 15 minutes and
nano /var/log/cron
still returns empty.
Is this cron running?, if yes where can i find prove?
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ntpdate -t does not timeout with the timeout value
I am using ntpdate to update the time. If there is no internet connection or the NTP server is down, ntpdate fails, but ntpdate takes a long time to exit (approximately 20 to 23 seconds). I read the manual of ntpdate and I see -t timeout option.
-t…
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sachu
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Does Amazon manage time synchronization on ECS/Fargate containers?
I'm trying to use NTP to synchronize local time in ECS containers using the ntpdate command, but it gives me this error:
ntpdate[770]: Can't adjust the time of day: Operation not permitted
Investigating the issue, I realized that local time is…
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Aramis Rodríguez Blanco
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Can you configure a specific interface to reach the NTP server?
I have to configure NTP on a CentOS server. I have 7 interfaces and I can reach the NTP server through one interface. Also the server doesn't have access to internet.
When I try ping:
ping 10.0.10.12
connect: Network is unreachable
But when I ping…
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Set up a NTP server which can be queried globally
I want to set up a server (hosted on aws/or a running system in some part of the world) as an NTP server that can be queried globally.
Currently, I have modified the ntp.conf file on the node to be made the server as server . But the problem is, on…
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