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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 * if the test succeeds, select 'OK' or 'Finish' to complete the setup * restart the firewall in the standard order (1, 2 then 3) * close the runlevel editor This procedure allows the ntp client setup module to test the server before the firewall has been configured to allow that service. If it tests successfully and you enable the service, the setup module makes the required modification(s) to the firewall. hth & regards, Carl