NTP syncing

[John DeDourek]

Mike McMullen wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I am trying to get ntp to sync with an ntp server without much luck on FC2.
> 
> I have the following servers defined in /etc/ntp.conf
> 
> server  time.nist.gov prefer
> server  ns.arc.nasa.gov prefer
> server  tick.usno.navy.mil prefer
> 
> My FC2 system time is set within one minute of two other servers I have
> using ntp; one RH7.3 and another FC1.
> 
> I've set the FC2 time by hand. When I start ntp I see the following
> message in my /var/log/messages log.
> 
> Sep 19 22:12:29 www ntpd[3183]: ntpd 4.2.0 at 1.1161-r Thu Mar 11 11:46:39 EST 2004 (1)
> Sep 19 22:12:29 www ntpd[3183]: precision = 1.000 usec
> Sep 19 22:12:29 www ntpd: ntpd startup succeeded
> Sep 19 22:12:29 www ntpd[3183]: no IPv6 interfaces found
> Sep 19 22:12:29 www ntpd[3183]: kernel time sync status 0040
> Sep 19 22:12:30 www ntpd[3183]: frequency initialized 0.000 PPM from /var/lib/ntp/drift
> 
> Any insight appreciated!
> 
> Mike
> 
> 
> 
If you continue to have trouble, show us the output of
    ntpq -p
as a starter.