[Wylug-discuss] NTP question

[Christopher McLean]

As with the Debians and Suses.... with a pool server in place and ntpd running, try:

ntpq -pn

Which will show you the current status of your time sync - grab the current (top) server you are using from the pool and dump that in your ntp.conf file as John mentioned, restart ntp and check ntpq -pn again. If it's happy (jitter < 1.0 & offset < 5 sec), you should be fine to use whatever single NTP server you wish, or it might point to issues with the server you are attempting?

Chris

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: wylug-discuss-bounces at wylug.org.uk [mailto:wylug-discuss-
> bounces at wylug.org.uk] On Behalf Of John Hodrien
> Sent: 26 March 2010 09:47
> To: wylug-discuss at wylug.org.uk
> Subject: Re: [Wylug-discuss] NTP question
> 
> On Fri, 26 Mar 2010, Anne Wilson wrote:
> 
> > I always used to set ntp to query ntp2c.mcc.ac.uk.  Now the distros
> all seem
> > to offer only pools, and object to me trying to use this as a source.
> Can
> > we no longer use a nearby source in preference to anonymous pools?
> 
> What do you mean by "the distros"?  Last I looked at centos and fedora
> they
> offered pools by default, but you could freely delete them and add your
> own
> valid choices.
> 
> Just configure /etc/ntp.conf to use whatever servers you like.
> 
> jh
> 
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