[aklug] Re: ntp.conf

If your lappy is just acting as a client then uninstall the ntp server and go with something a little more simple - ntpdate. Should be good to go after install, just keep an eye on syslog for confirmation. May I also suggest logwatch, it will pull all the relevant details from your log files for ya and send it in a email, right out of the box it rocks - don't need to touch a thing (fingers crossed).

2 cents,
--eddie

#apt-cache show ntpdate
Package: ntpdate
Priority: optional
Section: net
Installed-Size: 140
Maintainer: Debian NTP Team <pkg-ntp-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Architecture: i386
Source: ntp
Version: 1:4.2.2.p4+dfsg-2etch1
Depends: netbase, libc6 (>= 2.3.6-6), libcap1, libssl0.9.8 (>= 0.9.8c-1)
Filename: pool/main/n/ntp/ntpdate_4.2.2.p4+dfsg-2etch1_i386.deb
Size: 57832
MD5sum: fc544d64adaac58dde6aef81a18a70fa
SHA1: d9f5a7f31e1009186a0f5c3b4d7e5f16aebef811
SHA256: 3184037d4db4088b48f2ff757163088924e7c1b8ae0f296546a069f0881570c0
Description: client for setting system time from NTP servers
 NTP, the Network Time Protocol, is used to keep computer clocks
 accurate by synchronizing them over the Internet or a local network,
 or by following an accurate hardware receiver that interprets GPS,
 DCF-77, NIST or similar time signals.
 .
 ntpdate is a simple NTP client that sets a system's clock to match
 the time obtained by communicating with one or more NTP servers. It
 is not sufficient, however, for maintaining an accurate clock in the
 long run. ntpdate by itself is useful for occasionally setting the
 time on machines that do not have full-time network access, such as
 laptops.
 .
 If the full NTP daemon from the package "ntp" is installed, then
 ntpdate is not necessary.
 .
 Web sites: http://ntp.isc.org/ and http://www.ntp.org/
Tag: admin::benchmarking, admin::configuring, interface::commandline, network::client, network::service, protocol::ip, role::program, use::timekeeping

> Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 12:41:22 -0800
> From: choward@indicium.us
> To: aklug@aklug.org
> Subject: [aklug] ntp.conf
>
> (Wouldn't life be boring if you didn't get a noob question from me every
> other day?)
>
> Is there anyone out there who would be willing to share a simple ntp.conf
> file with me - one that gets time from a public server here in Alaska?
>
> I just installed ntp on my laptop (Debian 32-bit) but I don't know how to
> configure it. Found some tutorials on-line, but I think they are a bit
> more complicated than my needs demand, and I had trouble finding the name
> of a public NTP server here in Alaska.
>
> --
> Christopher Howard
> http://indicium.us
> http://theologia.indicium.us
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