Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ntp won't synchronize

[John Jolet]

On Feb 1, 2006, at 1:25 PM, James wrote:

> Devon Miller <devon.c.miller <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Make sure you have told you firewall to allow port 123 for both TCP &
>> UDP.I had the same behavior until I did that.dcm
>
> Well my firewall should allow outgoing initiated sessions from the
> ntpd (internal) server. From what I read, the remote ntpd server
> does not initiate communications, it my server that initates the
> communications?
>
> That assumed, my firewall rules (which are undergoing revision) are
> ok?
>
> OK, I'm new to ntpd, but it looks straightforward.
>
> after emerging, I started up ntpd and added it to the default run
> level.
> Then I checked and got:
>
> ntpq -p
>      remote           refid      st t when poll reach   delay
> offset  jitter
> ======================================================================
> ========
>  ecoca.eed.usv.r 80.96.120.253    2 u    8   64    1  202.639
> 1436722   0.001
>
> then:
> # date
> Wed Feb  1 14:58:04 Local time zone must be set--see zic manual
> page 2006
>
>
> /etc/localtime is a lock file so where do I correct/set the time
> zone to
> EST (eastern standard time) so ntpd will see it can correct my
> actual time
> (it's off by a little more than (1) hour.
>
> But now when I run 'ntpq -p' I get:
> ntpq: read: Connection refused
>
> What did I mess up or miss?
>
is ntpd dying?  ps -elf|grep ntp should show you something besides  
the grep.
>
> James
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> man zic and man ntpd did not help, or I missed the file to edit or the
> correct command syntax....
>
> James
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