On Wed, 2 May 2001, basslake wrote:
I use dial-up account, so when I boot up, I am not connected to the net. xntp exits , and log says that -
May 2 11:30:30 basslake ntpdate[389]: can't find host sundial.columbia.edu May 2 11:30:30 basslake ntpdate[389]: can't find host tick.cs.unlv.edu May 2 11:30:30 basslake ntpdate[389]: no servers can be used, exiting
This is no good. Maybe it cannot resolve the host names? Maybe you should try to use IP addresses instead.
May 2 11:30:30 basslake xntpd[392]: ntpd 4.0.99f Mon Apr 9 10:57:57 GMT 2001 ( May 2 11:30:30 basslake xntpd[392]: signal_no_reset: signal 13 had flags 400000 May 2 11:30:30 basslake xntpd[392]: precision = 11 usec May 2 11:30:30 basslake xntpd[392]: kern_enable is 1 May 2 11:30:30 basslake xntpd[392]: using kernel phase-lock loop 0040 May 2 11:30:30 basslake xntpd[392]: frequency initialized 0.000 from /etc/ntp.d May 2 11:30:30 basslake xntpd[392]: using kernel phase-lock loop 0041
Question: Do I need to stop, then restart xntpd every time I go on line ? , or is there a command-line command to tell xntpd to get the time sync from the net servers ?
I would recommend to start and stop it every time you go online/offline. Since it cannot sync the clock while you are offline anyway, there is not much use for keeping it running. Anyway - how exact do you want your system clock to be? I simply run "ntpdate" every time I connect to the net. It's not like the clock is going to drift for hours if you are disconnected for a day :) LenZ -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Lenz Grimmer SuSE GmbH mailto:grimmer@suse.de Schanzaeckerstr. 10 http://www.suse.de/~grimmer/ 90443 Nuernberg, Germany One who is always in a stew generally goes to pot.