[lug] NTP Configuration

Ian Hall-Beyer manuka at nerdherd.net
Wed Sep 26 09:47:34 MDT 2001


On Wed, 26 Sep 2001, Glenn Murray wrote:

On a related note, has anyone set up ntp with an Arbiter clock?

Any gotchas I need to watch out for?


> Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 09:16:33 -0600 (MDT)
> From: Glenn Murray <gmurray at Mines.EDU>
> Reply-To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
> To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
> Subject: Re: [lug] NTP Configuration
>
> No luck, the /etc/ntp.conf
>
> server time-c.timefreq.bldrdoc.gov
> #server time-b.timefreq.bldrdoc.gov
> #server time-a.timefreq.bldrdoc.gov
> server time.nist.gov
> server utcnist.colorado.edu
> driftfile /var/lib/ntp/ntp.drift
> #dirfitfile /etc/ntp/drift
> authenticate no
>
> still gives
>
> $ sudo ntpdate -v
> 26 Sep 09:14:07 ntpdate[556]: no servers can be used, exiting
>
> Did you actually mean "dirfitfile"?
>
> Thanks for any help,
> Glenn Murray
> www.mines.edu/~gmurray/public_html/Welcome.html
>
> On Fri, 14 Sep 2001, Hugh Brown wrote:
>
> > I have had success just using
> >
> > server servername1
> > server servername2
> > server servername3
> > server servername4
> > dirfitfile /etc/ntp/drift
> > authenticate no
> >
> > for my ntp.conf
> >
> > Hugh
> >
>
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-Ian

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