Sorry Andy, you must get fed up with rather naive questions here. Having had Dovecot problems before with jumps in time knocking dovecot over, I wanted to make sure everything was going OK with time. Obviously on my Debian box at home, I make sure hardware clock is synched. But even more obviously several VPS on a single machine could not keep fiddling with a hardware clock. The result would be like my mind - complete and utter chaos.
ntpd is working perfectly as running ntpq -p showed, and it is talking to the proper servers. Thanks so much for the rapid reply and I apologise for the simplistic question - put it down to the fact that I reached 63 this week.
Keith
On 12 May 2012 23:18, Andy Smith
<andy@bitfolk.com> wrote:
Hi Keith,
On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 11:09:57PM +0100, Keith Williams wrote:
> Have just installed Squeeze on a vps (twice! had problems first time round)
> Everything looks good and is ready for me to start installing the web sites
> etc, but I can't get ntpd running as I get the message in the subject.
Have you actually checked that ntpd is not running? The reason I ask
is that this is not a message output by ntpd but from hwclock, and
is harmless. VPSes don't have hardware clocks.
> I have tried running hwclock --debug, but get the same response. Any
> suggestions on what I should try next please?
If ntpd really is not running (run ntpq -p), please show us your
/etc/ntp.conf. I have had no issues with ntpd on squeeze.
Cheers,
Andy
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