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Re: Adjust time by ntp



On Sun, 2003-03-30 at 12:16, Willem-Jan Meijer wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I read something about NTP and I like that, so I installed the ntp packages,
> and I want to adjust the time with the command ntptimeset -s, but I get the
> message: 
> 
> 30 Mar 20:13:10 ntptimeset[11095]: the NTP socket is in use, exiting
> 
> When I only do ntptimeset it gets the correct time, but it doesn't adjust it
> 
> What to do?

I just use "ntpdate -b servername" and it works fine. ntptimeset -s
SHOULD work, however. Two things to check:

1) Make sure you're running the command as root
2) Make sure that you don't have an ntp daemon running

Good luck.

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