[ntp:questions] Re: How to change timeserver
Danny Mayer
mayer at ntp.isc.org
Mon Sep 19 14:00:11 UTC 2005
Tony wrote:
> Hi Johan and Danny,
>
> Thank you for the input. I went searching around for an
> alternate ntp.conf file and did not find one. So, I renamed
> /etc/ntp.conf and restart ntpd. Oh did it whine!
>
> So I opened /etc/rc.d/init.d/ntpd and looked. Hmmm.
> I echoed out $ntpconf from the readconf subroutine. Said
> it was /etc/ntp.conf. Frustrated, I looked at /etc/ntp.conf
> a few hundred more times. Then it occured to me to go back
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/ntpd and check out the start routine.
>
> Bingo!
>
> if [ -s "$ntpstep" -o -n "$dostep" ]; then
> # Synchronize with servers if step-tickers exists
> # or the -x option is used
> echo -n $"$prog: Synchronizing with time server: "
> /usr/sbin/ntpdate $dropstr -s -b -p 8 \
> $tickers 2>/dev/null >/dev/null
>
> Okay, so tickers is hard coded as ntpstep=/etc/ntp/step-tickers.
> I opened /etc/ntp/step-tickers and modified it to the following:
>
> # 0.pool.ntp.org
> # 1.pool.ntp.org
> # 2.pool.ntp.org
> time.nist.gov
> 127.127.1.0
>
Never use the local clock for ntpdate. You can't synchronize to
yourself. remove 127.127.1.0.
Danny
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