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ntpdate works but ntpd servers stuck at .INIT

There have been several similar questions to this, but none with resolutions. I can run ntpdate on the machine, and the date is updated. I assume that this means there is no firewall problem. I have ...
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How to test whether NTP server is secured or not

We are trying few of the configurations of NTP in ntp.conf file and want to be sure whether the NTP server is secured or not. Following the recommendation provided here: https://support.ntp.org/...
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ntpdate unavailable on CentOS8

I want to install ntpdate as usual on CentOS8. However, it is not available: # cat /proc/version Linux version 4.18.0-240.1.1.el8_3.x86_64 (mockbuil[email protected]) (gcc version 8.3.1 ...
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Syncing Linux NTP to Windows 10 NTP

I have two computers. One is running Linux (NI Linux Real-Time), and the other is running Windows 10. The Windows 10 computer has two network interface cards. The 1st NIC is configured so that the ...
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ntpdate -t does not timeout with the timeout value

I am using ntpdate to update the time. If there is no internet connection or the NTP server is down, ntpdate fails, but ntpdate takes a long time to exit (approximately 20 to 23 seconds). I read the ...
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ntpd synchronization not working

I'm running latest Raspbian Lite on Raspberry Pi 3 B. Just reinstalled ntpd completely and it doesn't synchronize time with upstream NTP servers at all. ntpdate -u 0.debian.pool.ntp.org works just ...
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NTP client not able to auto sync with server

I have connected a system with NTP client on a local network with windows system on which NTP server is running. The problem is client is not able to sync the time with server. NTP version: 4.2.8p13 (...
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Does Amazon manage time synchronization on ECS/Fargate containers?

I'm trying to use NTP to synchronize local time in ECS containers using the ntpdate command, but it gives me this error: ntpdate[770]: Can't adjust the time of day: Operation not permitted ...
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Can you configure a specific interface to reach the NTP server?

I have to configure NTP on a CentOS server. I have 7 interfaces and I can reach the NTP server through one interface. Also the server doesn't have access to internet. When I try ping: ping 10.0.10....
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Set up a NTP server which can be queried globally

I want to set up a server (hosted on aws/or a running system in some part of the world) as an NTP server that can be queried globally. Currently, I have modified the ntp.conf file on the node to be ...
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Query on NTP current time source

I have a query regarding ntpd options and the ntpq command. I have set up a local NTP Server in Ubuntu 14.04 PC and NTP Client is a custom development platform based on Renesas RZ/G1H. I have ...
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Red Hat Linux NTP Inconsistent Values

Recently I am experiencing NTP high delay and offset values on my server. $ ntpq -p remote refid st t when poll reach delay offset jitter =====================================...
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ntpdate take long time to sync (not ntpd)

I have referred ntpdate -d Server dropped Strata too high. This is a similar but different question. I having two devices. Freescale ARM board (NTP server) Tinker board (client) In the Freescale ...
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NTP 27 seconds Difference

I have DMZ server configured as NTP server to connect to external NTP servers and sync time in all devices in my corporate network. Below are the contents of my ntp.conf file in the DMZ server server ...
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Do "service ntpd restart" and "ntpdate <ntp-server-ip>" do the same work?

I often get large offsets when checking ntpd using ntpq -p, I generally restart the ntp daemon and it fixes the issue. I wanted to know if i can try the ntpdate <ntp-server-name> instead of ...
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How to force locally isolated ntpd update time

Objective I had locally isolated hosts. I'd like them all have the same time. One takes role of the time server, other syncs with it as clients. All machines has sporadic uptime. They are powered ...
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ntp client authentication fails with ntp server via symmetric key

I want to do ntp client authentication with ntp server using a symmetric key method, but after applying all the configuration on both side clients authentication is getting without key or on different ...
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NTP client reseting date to 1970

I have and debian running NTP client, but this cliente is reseting date to 1970.....and doesn't show any error in log. This is that I tried: 1) date (shows 1970) 2) stop NTP service 3) ntpdate with ...
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building ntp without ntpdate

I would like to build ntp without ntpdate. I configured the installation with this command: --without-PACKAGE and replaced PACKAGE with ntpdate as it is done with the option --without-sntp. Somehow ...
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syslogd no such file or directory - OpenBSD 3.9

OK - long story short: I have OpenBSD box that was setup as a network appliance (long time ago) I have returned to life. Several errors I am working on and could use any help I can get. Errors on ...
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ntpdate, ntpd can update time from time.google.com but the ntpd service fails

I'm trying to synchronise my Ubuntu 12.04.5 instance with the Google timeservers at time{1,4}.google.com and I can successfully query using both ntpdate and ntpd but once I start ntp as a service it ...
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How to set up local ntp server without internet access on ubuntu?

I have tried several guides on how to set up a local ntp server on ubuntu but none seem to work correctly. My servers are drifting heavily in time for some reason and I have to keep their time close ...
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Getting an error when trying to start the "ntpdate.service" for RHEL7.1

I am trying to restart services for openstack, and under my /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/ I run a systemctl start ntpdate.service and get the following error: May 31 12:05:39 ...
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Where can I see ntpd working status (log or message)

In my server the ntpd service is started but it does not seem to work. I can find nothing according to this ( Where are the ntpd log file located, and how can we configure the ntpd log file path? ) ...
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How can I synchronize system time with a NTP server continuously?

Is there a linux service that can synchronize system time with a NTP server with a given interval, such as 1 minute, 1 hour or 1 day ? Is it a good practice to run utpdate in a cron tab? e.g. */10 * ...
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Ntpdate is not running on my machine

I am trying to give IPv6 support for NTP server in my ntp scripts. Yet i have set the IPv6 NTP server directly by giving its IP in ntp.conf and restart the ntpd . Now in the logs of ntpq flash ...
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Ceph: HEALTH_WARN clock skew detected

I have configured ntp on Ceph nodes and time is synchronized! But ceph status always shows clock skew. ceph health detail shows: mon.node2 aadr 192.168.56.102:6789/0 clock skew 7192.45s > max 0....
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ntpdate -u ipaddress working but ntpd not updating the time

ntpdate -u ipaddress working fine but ntpd not updating the time. Please suggest what is the reason. [root@commander_a ~]# ntpdate -d 10.120.8.32 13 Jan 01:14:46 ntpdate[6172]: ntpdate [email protected] ...
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NTP not syncing automatically with my internal NTP server

I installed ntp on a centos server. I modified /etc/ntp.conf replacing the default server entries with one entry to my internal NTP server's IP (1.2.3.4 is the IP of the NTP server): server 1.2.3.4 ...
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Different offset in "ntpq -p" and "ntpdate -q"

I'm sometimes notified by our system monitoring about too high offsets in ntpd. When issuing ntpdate, it shows none. As ntpd adjusts time slowly, it seems to "think" there is an offset which needs to ...
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NTP running, server time is wrong on VM

The server time was 7 hours off (instead of 10AM it was 3AM, even though date showed the correct timezone). The output for ntpq was: $ ntpq -p remote refid st t when poll reach ...
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"NTP socket is in use" messages from ntpdate in syslog

In cron.log I can see that ntpdate is being triggered from a cron job which is running daily at 23:15 Mar 10 23:15:01 seitan /USR/SBIN/CRON[22407]: (root) CMD (/etc/network/if-up.d/ntpdate) But I ...
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How should I manage and troubleshoot NTP issues?

For some time now I've been fighting with some NTP issues in my company's network and I'm having a hard time to understand how the commands combine with the service. For example: In the server's /etc/...
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ntp is not syncing on centos server but gets response from remote server

I have googled for days before asking and I feel like I have tried everything but ntp is still not updating the time of the system automatically. I have left it running for days and still I get the ...
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how to skip ntpdate synchronization during boot on centos

I moved a centos server to a new IP and now it's stuck on ntpdate synch during boot. I just need it to boot once so I can assign the new IP. Going back to the old IP is not an option right now. CTL C ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ntp not working

I'm having major woes trying to get ntp working on several ubuntu 12.04 servers. Note this is NTP to keep the time set on those servers. Not to distribute the time! I've installed several of those ...
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ntpdate failing "Name or service not known"

I've got a NAS that is Linux-based (Linux version 2.6.32.11-svn70860) and it is not able to set its time using ntp. The previous SysAdmin is long gone so I have no idea whether this problem just ...
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Clock skew on my VPS server

I am having a problem with the time on my VPS hosted at Rackspace. Its running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4. Date commands gives a time which is 11 minutes ahead of the actual time. I am running ntpd ...
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Debian Server System time and time used by processes are different

I have a dedicated server running debian 7, the system time shows "Wed Aug 7 04:28:26 EAT 2013" I have restarted the server several times but processes like deluge and apache return http headers ...
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enable/disable ntp service on ubuntu 12.04

Our application runs on Ubuntu 12.04 Precise. On this server, we have both ntpdate and ntp. How to enable and disable the NTP service on-demand? I tried # sudo update-rc.d -f ntp remove/default ...
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NTP can't synchronise or find a suitable server

The problem I'm trying to solve is that NTP won't synchronize: $ sudo ntpstat unsynchronised time server re-starting polling server every 64 s Edit: Here's some ntpq output: $ sudo ntpq -c ...
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ntpdate setting incorrect date after boot

I have a few Debian XEN virtual machines and upgraded them to wheezy(I need the 3.2 kernel for a project). Everything was okay until I rebooted on of the machines. My current problem is, that ntpdate ...
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CentOS VM, NTP synchronization problems

We have three CentOS 5.9 VMs on an ESX3.5 host. Because of the nature of the services we provide it is required that the NTP time is synchronized and the time is correct on all three of them. ...
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how to auto-run ntdpdate command?

I have a few dedicated servers and for some reason they are totally unable to mantain the time properly synchronized, every few days they start having differences of minutes in the clock. So I have to ...
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ntpdate wrong date

Hi all I have an ubuntu8 server where I have problems with date. My current date (Europe/Rome) is 9:35 If I do date print me 11:12:34 I have seen my ntp.conf is: server 0.ubuntu.pool.ntp.org ...
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ntpdate and firewall: no server suitable for synchronization found

I'm behind a firewall and only have access to ports 80 and port 443. How can I sync my system's clock? Here's the command I issue: sudo ntpdate -u 1.debian.pool.ntp.org But I keep getting the ...
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ntpdate and ntpd failing to sync clock on Linux

I have a strange problem with one of my servers. ntpd and ntpdate fail to work, but debugging shows no errors at all. At first I thought maybe a local or network firewall was blocking UDP port 123, ...
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Need one time server clock sync for latency test, what should i use ntdate or ntpd

All machines are Ubuntu I need to sync clock one time for all machine in order to do a latency test. I read this article that said - ntpdate is a bit of a blunt instrument - it can only adjust ...
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Why running ntpdate one after one dosnt set offset to 0

I am running ntp update , one after one (with sec between them), In the log i see that there is always an offset , even if update was run few sec ago. Why is that?Is there a chance to get 0 offset? ...
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ntpdate works, but ntpd can't synchronize

This is in RHEL 5.5. First, ntpdate to the remote host works: $ ntpdate XXX.YYY.4.21 24 Oct 16:01:17 ntpdate[5276]: adjust time server XXX.YYY.4.21 offset 0.027291 sec Second, here are the server ...
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