[CentOS] NTP

Sun Apr 1 01:14:51 UTC 2007
John Summerfield <debian at herakles.homelinux.org>

Gary Richardson wrote:
> The default settings should be pretty good. I believe it uses
> pool.ntp.orgby default, which is a big list of ntp servers of stratum
> 2 (and possibly
> 3?) servers. Running the ntpd service is probably the best way to do it.
> 'service ntpd start' should be all that is need. If you clock is more 
> than a
> minute or two out to begin with, you may need to issue a 'ntpd -q -g'.

And, speaking from experience, check your firewall.

Running /etc/init.d/ntpdate on bootup is good.




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