Date Synchronization

[tovohery]

I want to synchronize my AIX 5.3 server with the server NTP windows using the ntpdate commande but there was a difference about 9 hours after synchro. here is my script and the result

# date
Tue Apr 10 18:58:06 CDT 2007

# ntpdate 192.168.10.212
10 Apr 09:58:19 ntpdate[499828]: step time server 192.168.10.212 offset -32399.029904 sec

# date
Tue Apr 10 09:58:24 CDT 2007

My time zone is GMT + 3

Any help?
Regards

 

[khalidaaa]

9 hours is too much! You can easily tell that there is not synchronization at all!

Could you please first visit this link and go thru it. You might get the solution in there. If not please let me know:

http://www.tek-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=1250150&page=1

Regards,
Khalid

 

[TSch]

I'm not quite sure whether that's the problem in your case but we have noticed in our environment that if the time difference is too great ntp won't work. We had to set the date manually to match the server time once and after that ntp started to synchronize.

I believe ntp said something like "offset too large" somewhere ...

Regards,
Thomas

 

[columb]

Assuming ssh works then

ssh remote_server $(date +%m%d%H%M)

will get things in synch before using ntpdate to get it spot on.

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Columb Healy

 

[Iago77]

ntpdate is to sync in authoritative way, the sychronization is immediate.

You should use NTPD so edit /etc/ntp.conf.

To start:

startsrc –s xntpd

To stop:
stopsrc –s xntpd

If there's any problem with the sync process you should take into account TIMEZONE from the server does not match with the TIMEZONE of the client.

To find out the TZ:

cat /etc/environment

In my point of view you might be using ntpdate and ntpd in the same machine.

I hope this help you