[NBLUG/talk] ntpdate

[E Frank Ball]

On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 03:56:48PM -0700, Engel wrote:
} Hi guys, 
} I'm running Kubuntu on my PIII/1gig Compaq that Chris
} Wagner helped me install at the last 'fest.
} 
} Now that it's been awhile, I'm noticing that at
} startup, there's a line that fails every time that
} says the computer is trying to go online and check for
} a time update from the ubuntu website during its
} loading. This means the loading sometimes hangs and I
} have to restart - or after it loads incorrectly I
} can't go online on the network and I have to restart. 
} 
} I'm told because NTP is hanging on boot, I need to
} remove the ntpdate command from start-up. 

Or you can configure ntpdate to work properly.

The server is listed in /etc/default/ntpdate

you can try ntp.nblug.org and see if it works better.

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   E Frank Ball                frankb at frankb.us