correct way to set timezone & clock/date?

[Steven A. DuChene]

OK, I may be wrong again. If I start ntpd by hand on my gateway/firewall system
it does indeed start and I am able to sync to that system from the other client
systems on my network but when I do a ntpq on it and type "peers" the only
thing listed there is the LOCAL (0) one. Unless I am mistaken it should also
list the two other ntp servers I have configured in the ntp.conf file. Right?

-----Original Message-----
>From: "Steven A. DuChene" <linux-clusters at mindspring.com>
>Sent: Aug 25, 2009 4:28 PM
>To: Main PLUG discussion list <plug-discuss at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
>Subject: Re: correct way to set timezone & clock/date?
>
>I mis-spoke below. It is not the cable modem thata has a time display but rather the cable TV box
>that has nothing to do with my network.
>
>I have discovered something else. If I start ntpd by hand on my external gateway server
>(the SuSE-10.1 system), it seems to work just fine. It seems to synchronize with the
>ntp servers and provides replies to my local network systems.
>
>It seems that is is just the actual ntpdate command to those external servers that does not
>function and hangs everytime I try it. My guess is if I commented out the calls to ntpdate
>in the ntp init script everything would function just fine.
>
>Why would ntpd connect and work fine but ntpdate will not function?
>--
>Steve
>
>-----Original Message-----
>>From: "Steven A. DuChene" <linux-clusters at mindspring.com>
>>Sent: Aug 25, 2009 3:50 PM
>>To: Alex Dean <alex at crackpot.org>, Main PLUG discussion list <plug-discuss at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
>>Subject: Re: correct way to set timezone & clock/date?
>>
>>My Cox cable modem has a time display that is set by their network and the time on my system
>>is set to under a minute different than that display. Besides if I cannot get any sort of reply
>>from the ntp servers how can I tell what time they are synced to?
>>--
>>Steve
>>
>
>
>
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