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10-14-2002, 06:43 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Oct 2002
Posts: 2
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Time sync
My server loses a couple of minutes every week. How can I get Linux to go out and get the real time and then update? |
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10-14-2002, 06:47 PM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Mar 2002
Location: Salt Lake City, UT - USA
Distribution: Gentoo ; LFS ; Kubuntu ; CentOS ; Raspbian
Posts: 12,613
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Sure can, what distro are you running?
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10-14-2002, 06:50 PM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Mar 2002
Location: Salt Lake City, UT - USA
Distribution: Gentoo ; LFS ; Kubuntu ; CentOS ; Raspbian
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Found the easiest, and most straight forward how to for ya:
http://www.txol.net/linux/xntp.htm
Cool |
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10-14-2002, 06:57 PM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Mar 2002
Location: Salt Lake City, UT - USA
Distribution: Gentoo ; LFS ; Kubuntu ; CentOS ; Raspbian
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10-14-2002, 07:05 PM
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Registered: Dec 2001
Location: Oklahoma City, OK, USA
Distribution: Xubuntu 16.04 LTS
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And if your distribution includes the "rdate" program, you don't need to bother with an ntp daemon. Just run "rdate -s tock.august.com" from a daily cron job to reset the clock. There are many other servers; that's just the one I use. Google for "rdate" to find others, plus sources for the program in case you don't have it...
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10-16-2002, 12:07 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Oct 2002
Posts: 2
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I used the rdate command. It was very simple and seems to work great. I did have some initial problems but that was because port 37 (time) was closed down on our firewall.
Thanks so much!!!
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10-17-2002, 06:43 AM
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Registered: Mar 2002
Location: Elyria, Ohio
Distribution: Debian, Nothing else required
Posts: 141
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You can use ntpd or ntpdate. -mk
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