Re: Can't get Correct Time in Fedora 8

On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 07:32:44PM -0500, Todd Zullinger wrote:
Paul W. Frields wrote:
su - # provide root password
service ntpd stop
ntpdate 0.fedora.pool.ntp.org # or your server of choice
service ntpd start
exit

I presume you're stopping ntpd because otherwise ntpdate complains
that "the NTP socket is in use, exiting"?

To avoid that, just use the -u option to ntpdate and it will be able
to update while ntpd is running.

Good tip, thanks Todd!

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