Time server...how to set it up on FC1?

[Gilbert Sebenste <sebenste weather3 admin niu edu>]

Hello everyone,

I'd like to have one of my machines be a local timeserver, pinging off our 
campus time server, and then within my network, I'd like my interoffices 
machines to ping off the local machine that will be a timeserver. I used 
redhat-config-services to start "time", and then it sucessfully restarted.

The problem: when I type "rdate -p MACHINE", it shows the correct time and 
date from "MACHINE". But, when I do "ntpdate", I get:

"ntpdate [process-id]: the NTP socket is in use, exiting"

and, of course, it doesn't sync up. And, it also means that my time server 
isn't being recognized by the time sync program on Redhat, when you 
right-click on the clock, choose "adjust date and time", and then
choose the server. I manually added my interoffice machine, but 
again, it just won't work. In /etc/hosts.allow, I allowed my local 
machines an "ALL:ALL", but that didn't help. What am I doing 
wrong?

Thanks!

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