On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 03:00:10PM +0100, Niki Kovacs enlightened us: > To get my system on time, I usually issue these two commands: > > # ntpdate de.pool.ntp.org > # hwclock -w > > And when I want this to be done on startup, I put the two lines in > rc.local. > > I wonder if this is an orthodox way to do things. Or is there something > more appropriate? > chkconfig ntpd on will cause ntpd to sync and start the ntp daemon every boot. service ntpd start will start the daemon right now. Matt -- Matt Hyclak Department of Mathematics Department of Social Work Ohio University (740) 593-1263 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20071109/e13c8b54/attachment-0005.sig>