Re: problem with ntpdate and squeeze

[Stan Hoeppner <stan@hardwarefreak.com>]

Leonardo Cuyar Morales put forth on 4/18/2011 9:13 AM:
> I installed ntpdate pkg in squeeze but the command don't work

The most common cause of this is that ntpdate won't execute if ntpd is
running and thus holding the socket.  For example:

[root@greer]~$ ntpdate tick.wustl.edu
18 Apr 15:10:58 ntpdate[7826]: the NTP socket is in use, exiting

[root@greer]~$ ntpdate -q tick.wustl.edu
server 128.252.19.1, stratum 1, offset -0.001011, delay 0.09784
18 Apr 15:10:50 ntpdate[7820]: adjust time server 128.252.19.1 offset
-0.001011 sec

Doing a 'query only' with ntpdate doesn't use the default npt port of
123, thus avoiding the socket conflict with ntpd.


If you see the above error, you already have ntpd installed, and should
thus have no need for ntpdate, unless your only motivation is to use
ntpdate for manual troubleshooting with "querie only" mode, which is
exactly how I use ntpdate.

-- 
Stan