time/ntp[d]

[Aaron Konstam]

On Wed, 2008-08-06 at 08:56 +0100, michael wrote:
> It seems my clock is losing time but yet I have 'enable Network Time
> Protocol' enabled and set to a local time machine. If I
> 
> 	sudo /etc/init.d/ntpd stop
> 	sudo /usr/sbin/ntpdate 130.88.200.6
> 
> then it resets it to the correct time, so how come it's losing time? 
> 
> I was expecting to see stats in /var/log/ntpstats (as per my Debian box)
> but that dir doesn't exist on this Fed box...
> 
> Any ideas folks? Ta, M
> 
Are you running NetworkManager? If so ntp will not run without some
extra finagling since the network has not been created when the init.d
script for ntpd is run.
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