correct way to set timezone & clock/date? more info

[Steven A. DuChene]

Hmm, stranger & stranger.

I just tried the SAME ntpdate command on a machine INSIDE my network
and it works just fine there so that eliminates as far as I can tell having a problem
with the Cox external network access. The ntpdate command hangs only
on the gateway system.

-----Original Message-----
>From: "Steven A. DuChene" <linux-clusters at mindspring.com>
>Sent: Aug 25, 2009 9:36 PM
>To: 'Main PLUG discussion list' <plug-discuss at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
>Subject: RE: correct way to set timezone & clock/date? SOLVED? (sort of)
>
>OK, I think I found the problem with ntpd not getting any peers from my server list.
>I was starting ntpd from the command line with the following syntax:
>
>ntpd -I eth0 -D 4 -n
>
>eth0 is my internal network. I got to looking at the "no interface found for..."
>messages and thought I would try adding a -I eth1 where eth1 is my external
>outside network connection through the Cox cable modem. So now my command
>syntax is:
>
>ntpd -u ntp -I eth0 -I eth1 -D 4
>
>Once I added the "-I eth1" I now seem to have the three external peers listed
>when I run "ntpq -p"
>
>This still does not explain why ntpdate hangs with no replies however. The
>ntpdate command sequence I used does not list anything other than the
>servers like this:
>
>ntpdate -v -d dewey.lib.ci.phoenix.az.us ntp.drydog.com
>
>no restrictions on the interface or anything so I am still not understanding
>why that does not work. Plus when I try to start the ntp service from the init
>script there is no restrictions on the interface like I was using from the
>command line.
>
>Anyway I think there is still some issue with the ntpdatge command hanging
>and since the ntp init script always calls ntpdate before starting ntpd I am
>still not going to be able to enable the ntp service on startup.
>
>Some progress has been made however.
>--
>Steve
>
>
>
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