[CentOS] NTP

Sun Apr 1 05:07:01 UTC 2007
Mike <centos at silverservers.com>

That seems a little too easy - yet there it is running now.

chkconfig --level 3 ntpd on

I guess some things just work right out of the box.  thx!

Gary Richardson wrote:
> The default settings should be pretty good. I believe it uses 
> pool.ntp.org <http://pool.ntp.org> by 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'.
>
> On 3/31/07, *Mike* <centos at silverservers.com 
> <mailto:centos at silverservers.com>> wrote:
>
>     Greets!
>
>     Ok.  I'm looking at a client that needs to keep their server time
>     close as reasonably possible (within a minute) of the actual time
>     of day.  I've installed the RPM for NTP and I'm looking for tips
>     on what the simplest setup should be, ie:
>     What server(s) should I be using for sync?
>     Should I just run it from a cron every 20 minutes or so?
>
>     thx.
>     Mike
>

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