Re: How to enable NTP?

["Estelmann, Christian" <c.estelmann@gmx.net>]

What says 'ntpq -p'?

user@host:~$ ntpq -p
     remote           refid      st t when poll reach   delay   offset 
 jitter
==============================================================================
[...]
 some-host       192.53.103.104   2 u  902 1024  377    2.842    0.417 
  0.242
[...]

If it says that it can't reach any hosts, then you should try other hosts.

You can tell your DHCP-client that he has to ask the DHCP-server or you 
can set them in /etc/ntp.conf.
Default settings in /etc/ntp.conf:
server 0.debian.pool.ntp.org iburst
server 1.debian.pool.ntp.org iburst
server 2.debian.pool.ntp.org iburst
server 3.debian.pool.ntp.org iburst


Am 22.03.2014 17:16, schrieb D. R. Evans:
> Michael Schuerig said the following at 03/22/2014 09:35 AM :
>
> > > What do I need to do to enable NTP properly in debian?
> >
> > As far as I remember, just installing the ntp package is enough.
>
> Well, I'm afraid that it definitely isn't. The clock is currently two minutes
> slow as compared to all the other machines on the network, and also as
> compared to http://time.gov/HTML5/.
>
> > Sorry, can't help you there. As far as I can tell that is not supposed
> > to happen. You might want to check /var/log/syslog for anything related
> > to ntpd.
>
> Checked that; there are no relevant error messages.
>
>    Doc