Ntpdate fails to start

[Paul Smith]

On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 1:11 PM, Stuart Sears <stuart at sjsears.com> wrote:
>> 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.

Thanks, Stuart and Edward. Got this:

# /sbin/service ntpd status
ntpd (pid 2059) is running...
#

ntpdate tries to start at booting. So, should I disable it? Which one
of the two should I have running in order to have always a correct
time on my computer?

Paul