[lug] NTP question

[Steve Sullivan]

Hi,

I'm learning to use NTP, but it doesn't seem to work.
I'm running Redhat 7.3 on a pentium.

ntpdate works great.

So I decided to try ntpd.  I deliberately set my clock 20 seconds off,
and set up /etc/ntp.conf.  Then I started /etc/rc.d/init.d/ntpd,
and waited.  And waited.  And waited.  45 minutes later and my clock
is still 20 seconds off.  What am I doing wrong here?

Here is my /etc/ntpd file:
=========== /etc/ntpd ========
restrict default ignore
restrict 127.0.0.1 
server 204.34.198.41
server 132.163.4.103
server 128.138.140.44
server 164.67.62.194
driftfile /etc/ntp/drift
========== end file ========

And the only log entries during that period are ...
Mar 17 17:49:23 helix ntpd[27373]: ntpd 4.1.1 at 1.786 Mon Apr  8 06:30:52 EDT 2002 (1)
Mar 17 17:49:23 helix ntpd[27373]: precision = 31 usec
Mar 17 17:49:23 helix ntpd[27373]: kernel time discipline status 0040
Mar 17 17:49:23 helix ntpd[27373]: frequency initialized 0.000 from /etc/ntp/drift
Mar 17 17:49:23 helix ntpd: ntpd startup succeeded


Meanwhile it appears that ntpd hasn't touched a thing in file /etc/ntp:
$ ls -al /etc/ntp  
   4 drwxr-xr-x    2 ntp      ntp          4096 May  8  2002 ./
   8 drwxr-xr-x   79 root     root         8192 Mar 17 17:47 ../
   4 -rw-r--r--    1 ntp      ntp             4 Apr  8  2002 drift
   4 -rw-------    1 root     root          266 Apr  8  2002 keys
   0 -rw-r--r--    1 root     root            0 Apr  8  2002 step-tickers


What have I overlooked here?

Many thanks!

Steve



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