[AG-TECH] help ag2 newbie

[Monika Rabarison]

Aaron,

I did not have any problem synchronizing all three boxes
to ntp-1.accessgrid.org -using ntpd on the Linux boxes
with /etc/ntp.conf only containg the following lines:

server ntp-1.accessgrid.org
driftfile /etc/ntp/drift

Monika


On Mon, 3 May 2004, Aaron Lafferty wrote:

> 
> Hi all;
> 
> I tried syncing them all to ntp-1.accessgrid.org, but only the windows
> box wants to sync with it.  ntpdate on the linux boxes complain about it
> not being a valid server or some such and quits.  trying to use ntpd
> gets me essentially the same response.  
> 
> So I configure the linux boxes by hand to be within about 40 seconds of
> one another (i dont know how close these boxes have to be in time) and I
> still get the problem from the node manager on the windows box that it
> cannot connect.
> 
> I am obviously missing something (aside from having no clue why windows
> will time sync and the linux boxes wont) is there someplace where there
> is a nice set of documentation that lays out for you what steps you need
> to take to set these up?  I've been looking but I think I'm not looking
> in any of the right places.
> 
> Thanks,
> -AA
> 
> On Fri, 2004-04-30 at 23:39, Monika Rabarison wrote:
> > I recall I had similar issue when upgrading to 2.1.2. The problem 
> > disappeared after I had the time synchronized on all 3 boxes.
> > 
> > Monika
> 
> 

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