Ntpdate fails to start

[Stuart Sears]

Paul Smith wrote:
> Dear All,
> 
> At booting, ntpdate fails to start, and also the following command fails:
> 
> # /sbin/service ntpdate start
> ntpdate: Synchronizing with time server:                   [FAILED]
> #
> 
> The log messages are:
> 
> Sep  7 12:50:50 localhost ntpdate[2908]: the NTP socket is in use, exiting
> 
> Any ideas?

service ntpd status

Should show you that the ntp daemon is already running.

You can't run both ntpd (the server) and ntpdate (the client) at the
same time.

Stuart


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