RE: [cobalt-users] Ntp Server Qube3

[Brandon Wheaton <brandonw@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> From: Benoit Perreault [mailto:liste@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Hi,
> 
> I do the following command at the prompt 
> 
> /usr/sbin/ntpdate ntp-cup.external.hp.com
> 
> and i get the following error
> 
> 6 Feb 14:24:58 ntpdate[26512]: the NTP socket is in use, exiting
> 


Hi there.

It looks like xntpd is running, thereby conflicting with 
your manual initialization of the command.  It lives in 
/etc/rc.d/init.d/.  If you do a ps aux | grep ntp you 
will see something like:

root  16476  7.0  1.0  1364 1364 ?  SL   23:20 0:00 xntpd -A

if it is running.  If you wish to turn it off, just do so via your 
control panel GUI.  I prefer to update NTP via cron and not have a 
time server running, so I have xntpd disabled.

Take care.

Brandon Wheaton
UNIX Systems Engineer 
ValiCert, Inc.
1215 Terra Bella Ave. 
Mountain View, CA 94043 
650.280.UNIX 

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