Carl Hartung wrote:
On Friday 25 August 2006 13:32, pelibali wrote:
I replaced the CMOS battery in the comp of my mom, but still decided to go for the weekly time calibration from an ntp server (via ntpdate timeserver and hwclock --systohc --utc).
After the first few tries I realized that by default the firewall of SUSE 8.2 doesn't allow UDP port nr. 123 of the timeserver to connect to the same on my mom's computer. I attempted to open up UDP port 123 to the internet via FW_SERVICES_QUICK_UDP, but that was not effective.
Would you please suggest me an easy way to achieve the wished results?!
Hi Pelibali,
The procedure I've used that always 'just works':
* launch the runlevel editor, enable 'expert mode'
* drop the firewall *in reverse order* of how it is normally initialized (drop phase 3, then phase 2, then phase 1, I think, in 8.2)
* launch the ntp client setup module, enter your desired ntp server and test
hth & regards,
Carl
I don't think 8.2 had an NTP client module in Yast. I seem to remember having to set up NTP manually in /etc/ntp.conf. You do set it to run in runlevel editor. I cant' advise you how to adjust the firewall afterward though. Jim F