How do I use NTP to keep my (rather fast) clock in sync?

[Magnus Therning]

On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 05:04:46PM +0100, Laurence Rowe wrote:
>Hi,
>
>The internal clock in my computer is rather fast (gains about 10mins a
>day). I've installed ntp-simple in the hope that it might keep the
>clock in sync for me, but it doesn't seem to have helped. Any ideas on
>how to solve this / settings to change?

Have you configured it properly? The default time server might not be
accessible from your computer, firewalling and other things may limit
it. I think you can try your config using ntpdate.

Another package that does ntp is chrony, there was an article in Linux
Journal sometime last year I think. I usually install it if I'm having
problems with ntp (and ntpdate), it's easier to configure and offers a
client program that you can use to play around with the configuration.

/M

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