Re: ntpdate troubles

on Wed, Jun 19, 2002, Jerome BENOIT ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Thanks for your answers > > Bill Benedetto wrote: > >If you ran ntpdate directly, what machine did you tell > >ntpdate to use? Something inside your building or something > >outside your building? > > > > outside my bu

Re: ntpdate troubles

Thank you for your message. My kernel is a standard one: 2.2.19 (potato). But I biuld my own kernle with `make-kpkg' (the debian tool to build quickly a personnalised): may be I removed an option that I should not. Since I have the same troubles with another computer running with the kernel inst

Re: ntpdate troubles

On Thu, 20 Jun 2002, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > > Another stupid question: You *ARE* doing this as root, right? It > > has to be run as root. > > Yes > > > > > The manpage for ntpdate says that "-d" won't actually set the > > clock. Does "ntpdate -v -B ntp.apple.com" work (that is, without > > the "

Re: ntpdate troubles

Bill> Another stupid question: You *ARE* doing this as root, right? It Bill> has to be run as root. Jerome> Yes Bill> The manpage for ntpdate says that "-d" won't actually set the Bill> clock. Does "ntpdate -v -B ntp.apple.com" work (that is, without Bill> the "-d")? Jerome> wit

Re: ntpdate troubles

Bill Benedetto wrote: Bill> Really! Bill> Bill> Let me see if I have this straight... Bill> Bill> ntpdate ntp.apple.com FAILS... ? Bill> Bill> ntpdate 17.254.0.26FAILS... ? Bill> Bill> ntpdate -d -v -B ntp.apple.com WORKS... ? Bill> Bill> Do I have that correct?

Re: ntpdate troubles

Bill Benedetto wrote: Jerome BENOIT writes: Jerome> I have just tried Jerome> Jerome> ntpdate 17.254.0.26 Jerome> Jerome> and I got exactly the same error message Jerome> (17.254.0.26 is the ip btained via ping for ntp.apple.com) Jerome> Jerome> Very strange ! Really! Let

Re: ntpdate troubles

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 04:45:12PM -0400, Bill Benedetto wrote: > Okay. ntpdate with no REMOTE_MACHINE_NAME_GOES_HERE gives me > no servers can be used, exiting It wasn't a literal, he ment chose a time server to pick on and put it's name there.

Re: ntpdate troubles

>>> Jerome BENOIT writes: Jerome> I have just tried Jerome> Jerome> ntpdate 17.254.0.26 Jerome> Jerome> and I got exactly the same error message Jerome> (17.254.0.26 is the ip btained via ping for ntp.apple.com) Jerome> Jerome> Very strange ! Really! Let me see if I have this str

Re: ntpdate troubles

Brother. I must be pretty tired. See my corrections below --- Forwarded Message Date:Wed, 19 Jun 2002 16:29:13 -0400 From:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: ntpdate troubles Bill> Okay. It works okay at boot time? Jerome> No ! Jerome> It is why I debg it: I ge

Re: ntpdate troubles

So I would guess this means that you cannot get to the machine you are ntpdate'ing against. You showed that it worked when you did it against ntp.apple.com. I assume that it also works when you debug it by hand? If so, I would guess that Joris' suggestion is a good one: Joris> on my machine

Re: ntpdate troubles

Bill> Okay. It works okay at boot time? Jerome> No ! Jerome> It is why I debg it: I get exactly the samr message error in Jerome> `/var/log/syslog'. Bill> Bill> When you ran it by hand to debug it, the command looked something Bill> like this, right? Bill> Bill> ntpdate -b

Re: ntpdate troubles

>> Okay. It works okay at boot time? > No ! > It is why I debg it: I get exactly the samr message error in > `/var/log/syslog'. on my machine, I haven't got ntpdate to work out the hostnames of any ntp server. I just pinged them, copied the ip's and dpkg-reconfigure'd ntp to look for the ip's. It

Re: ntpdate troubles

Bill Benedetto wrote: Bill> (2) Did you use Bill> /etc/init.d/ntpdate start Jerome> at boot time Bill> or did you run ntpdate directly? Jerome> only to debug Bill> If you ran ntpdate directly, what machine did you tell Bill> ntpdate to use? Something inside your building or s

Re: ntpdate troubles

Bill> (2) Did you use Bill> /etc/init.d/ntpdate start Jerome> at boot time Bill> or did you run ntpdate directly? Jerome> only to debug Bill> If you ran ntpdate directly, what machine did you tell Bill> ntpdate to use? Something inside your building or something Bill> outside

Re: ntpdate troubles

Thanks for your answers Bill Benedetto wrote: Jerome BENOIT writes: Jerome> since a while I have troubles with `ntpdate': Jerome> I get the message Jerome> Jerome> "no server suitable for synchronization found" Jerome> Jerome> when lauching with no option. Jerome> Jerome> But

Re: ntpdate troubles

>>> Jerome BENOIT writes: Jerome> since a while I have troubles with `ntpdate': Jerome> I get the message Jerome> Jerome> "no server suitable for synchronization found" Jerome> Jerome> when lauching with no option. Jerome> Jerome> But when I add the option "-q" or "-d" everythings

Re: ntpdate troubles (fwd)

-- Forwarded message -- Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 11:10:29 -0700 (PDT) From: Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: ntpdate troubles hi ya i think you are outside the range of ntpdate to fix it will only

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Original Message Subject: Re: ntpdate troubles Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 20:03:29 +0300 From: Jerome BENOIT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Alvin Oga wrote: > hi ya >

Re: ntpdate troubles

hi ya is ntpd also running while you manually invoke ntpdate ?? ( you have to kill ntpd first ) what does ntpdate -v ntp.foo.com give you ?? - should give lots of info if it connected ( i pick on ntp.apple.com since they're up the street ) sample ntp testing commands o