I am sorry, but when i will config ntp trought system-config-date and check sync time before service startup, it is working, but i do not see any -x switch in /etc/sysconfig/ntp . :( Thanks On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 12:55 AM, John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com> wrote: > David Hláčik wrote: > >> Hello, >> in system-config-date i have checkbox synchronize date before service >> startup. >> Which config switch,file does it affect? I want to turn it on on my CentOS >> machine without xauth , just editing config files , i was hoping it could be >> in /etc/sysconfig/ntpd but no. >> > > > most likely, the system-config util is setting that option in > /etc/sysconfig/ntpd which by default reads... > > # Drop root to id 'ntp:ntp' by default. > OPTIONS="-u ntp:ntp -p /var/run/ntpd.pid" > > # Set to 'yes' to sync hw clock after successful ntpdate > SYNC_HWCLOCK=no > > # Additional options for ntpdate > NTPDATE_OPTIONS="" > > if -x is /not/ set in OPTIONS, it calls /usr/sbin/ntpdate with various > parameters, this hard sets the system time to the NTP server time. if -x > /is/ set, it does the time step thing > > if SYNC_HWCLOCK=yes, then it invokes sync_hwclock in the /etc/init.d/ntpd > script, which in turn runs /sbin/hwclock with various options as specified. > > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080516/2fe7e5b7/attachment-0004.html>