On Thu, 5 Jun 2003 17:13, John Lamb wrote:
Tom Nielsen wrote:
After a great amount of work, I managed to get ntp running...I think.
After configuring the IP address, I ran /etc/init.d/xntpd. I noticed it said "resetting time to IP ...." I tried to run 'ntpdate' and I got:
ntpdate: no servers can be used, exiting.
Do I need to run ntpdate? How and what do I setup to have my clock set itself on a monthly basis?
You don't need to run ntpdate. You enable xntp using yast, edit /etc/ntp.conf and make sure there is a line server fully.qualified.domain.name pointing to an NTP server. You should can find one using a google search. You can find NTP servers with a Google search.
I don't know if you can restrict xntp to looking up the time once a month. I don't need to because on one machine I have an ethernet connection and on the other I use a different solution below. You might find the answer on the howto at http://tldp.org/
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-- JDL
You could also look at chrony, its designed for infrequent connection to a time server. http://chrony.sunsite.dk/index.php -- Regards, Graham Smith ---------------------------------------------------------