On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 12:45:41PM -0500, Raymond Norton wrote: > I have eight CentOS vmware servers on some win2003 boxes. The time and > date on these servers always drifts, no matter what settings I apply. I > finally stumbled across a way of keeping the time relatively close, by > restarting ntp every 5 minutes. The restart makes the time sync up, but > having the ntp service running alone does not work. Is there a fix for > this? Ask the ntp server what peers it is synchronizing with: $ ntpdc ntpdc> peers remote local st poll reach delay offset disp ======================================================================= ... and check if that matches what you expect. Is there at least one external server in the list? Is it reachable by ping from the CentOS vmware instance? florin -- If we wish to count lines of code, we should not regard them as lines produced but as lines spent. -- Edsger Dijkstra -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: Digital signature Url : http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20061011/1547a567/attachment.pgp