The Network Time Protocol daemon (NTPd) is a daemon program that synchronizes the system time with time servers using the Network Time Protocol (NTP).
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Error when running ntpd on openVZ host: cap_set_proc() failed to drop root privileges:
CentOS 6.x | OpenVZ
I want to run a NTP server on a vps host of mine. Is this possible?
When I try to start ntpd, it fails immediately and gives the following error:
Mar 14 22:47:44 ev1 ...
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How to get ntp to use gpsd to update system date/time with a large offset
I have a GPS connected to my system, and if I change system time to be ahead/behind GPS time by less than 4 hours, ntpd ensures that the system time is updated to match that of the GPS. If, however, ...
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Does `ntpd` set hardware clock?
Does ntpd set hardware clock?
Does ntpd set hardware clock if I pass -q option (mean one-time correction)?
Linux 3.5.6, ntp 4.2.6.p5.
Here is written that ntpd syncs the system clock to hardware ...
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Is there any reason to have ntpd sync to Local(0) if server is not used as a time source?
Running CentOS release 5.8
I had a time drift issue on a server which I fixed - it was not syncing the hwclock so that on a reboot ntp would be more than 1000 seconds off and never sync time.
While ...
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What are possible reasons for erratic NTP synchronistation?
On a Ubuntu 10.04 system I noticed following strange NTP sync events:
Jul 3 02:19:51 hst ntpd[1432]: no servers reachable
Jul 3 02:36:55 hst ntpd[1432]: synchronized to 91.189.94.4, stratum 2
Jul ...
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Why does CentOS not have an NTP drift file?
It seems that CentOS does not have a ntp.drift or similar file. In /etc/ntp.conf, it says that you can use /var/lib/ntp/drift as a drift file but this file does not exist. Does CentOS does not ...
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How to check if NTPD updates Linux machine's time successfully using shell?
I'm trying to use NTPD to update my Linux machine's time to a specified NTP server.
Here is the scenario:
Each time the Linux machine starts up, I want to update the time from NTP server and if ...
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How can I tell if my system is keeping the system time up to date?
How can I tell if my Debian system is keeping the system time accurate by getting NTP updates? Basically I want to turn this on if it is currently off, but I don't know if it is on or off.
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Has OpenBSD's ntpd replacement been ported to other BSDs? Or Linux?
I know the OpenBSD team wrote a from-scratch replacement for ntpd—OpenNTPD—that is available via pkgsrc/ports. My question is more about the base system: Is OpenNTPD the default ntpd in the base ...
