Re: Ntpdate fails to start

On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 1:11 PM, Stuart Sears <stuart@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
At booting, ntpdate fails to start, and also the following command fails:

# /sbin/service ntpdate start
ntpdate: Synchronizing with time server: [FAILED]
#

The log messages are:

Sep 7 12:50:50 localhost ntpdate[2908]: the NTP socket is in use, exiting

Any ideas?

service ntpd status

Should show you that the ntp daemon is already running.

You can't run both ntpd (the server) and ntpdate (the client) at the
same time.

Thanks, Stuart and Edward. Got this:

# /sbin/service ntpd status
ntpd (pid 2059) is running...
#

ntpdate tries to start at booting. So, should I disable it? Which one
of the two should I have running in order to have always a correct
time on my computer?

Paul

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