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Re: [SLE] quick question about checking time
- From: Patrick Shanahan <ptilopteri@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2006 02:59:12 +0000 (UTC)
- Message-id: <20061002025906.GA3092@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
* Carl Hartung <suselinux@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> [10-01-06 19:35]:
>
> A potential 'gotcha': You can't test your remote time server with the
> ntp client configuration module in YaST when the firewall is running.
> This is because the service hasn't been enabled yet and the port is
> still closed by the firewall.
>
IIRC, I didn't have any problem with yast in 10.1. I was able to
check the connection and got a successful answer from yast w/o dropping
the firewall. The yast script must alter the firewall temporarily
during ntp setup. (again, IIRC :^) ).
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>
> A potential 'gotcha': You can't test your remote time server with the
> ntp client configuration module in YaST when the firewall is running.
> This is because the service hasn't been enabled yet and the port is
> still closed by the firewall.
>
IIRC, I didn't have any problem with yast in 10.1. I was able to
check the connection and got a successful answer from yast w/o dropping
the firewall. The yast script must alter the firewall temporarily
during ntp setup. (again, IIRC :^) ).
--
Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535
http://wahoo.no-ip.org @ http://counter.li.org
HOG # US1244711 Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2
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