network time

[Frank McCormick]

On Mon, 05 Sep 2005 17:48:08 +0200
Ryan Jacobs <ryan at ungana-afrika.org> wrote:

> 
> I had a similar problem. After I installed a second NIC and setup a 
> bridge between the computers 2 NICs, I was no longer getting time 
> updates either.
> 
> I run a script to initiate the bridge, and what I found was this
> script  was called AFTER ntpdate. Since no external network access
> could happen  until the bridge script ran, ntpdate could not access
> the time server.
> 
> >>For some reason I noticed this morning (it may have been happening
> >for >a while) that my system no longer contacts the Ubuntu timeserver
> >for >the correct time. 
> >>Where in the bootup scripts is this located? I probably accidentally
> >>deleted it sometime in the distant past.
> > 
> > 
> > /etc/init.d/ntpdate -- here 'ntp' stands for 'network time
> > protocol.
> > 
> > The best way that I've found to remove items from your
> > startup scripts is to install and use rcconf. Then go

Thanks for all the help guys. My updates apparently stopped when I took
somethingout of the boot process. Its back now and all is well. Well
almost all. Installed Colony 4 on another partition last night and there
are a few issues there but that's for another message.

Cheers

Frank