ntpdate download

[Red Squirrel]

Anyone know a reliable source I can get ntpdate for CentOS? For some reason it's not in the yum repositories so I'll have to do it manually. Not sure why it's not even on the system. I'm trying to set the clock manually for now but no go. No GUI on this server.

 

[Colt45]

Some distros dropped ntpdate, you can use ntpd, it has same functionality and more.


edit: to set manually, use date

 

[Red Squirrel]

Won't find ntpd either. TBH the centOS repositories suck. Hardly anything is in there compared to fedora. Would it be safe to just make it use Fedora's repositories, or could that break stuff?

 

[Nothinman]

I'm not sure if ntpdate is included in the ntp package, but ntpd certainly is...

 

[n0cmonkey]

Won't find ntpd either. TBH the centOS repositories suck. Hardly anything is in there compared to fedora. Would it be safe to just make it use Fedora's repositories, or could that break stuff?

That would be unsafe. Don't do it. CentOS is a server distro first and foremost. They're going to run a much leaner package set than Fedora.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Heh, try this: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL

Just found it. 😛

 

[Red Squirrel]

Hmm good find. I'll have to give that a try. I still find it odd that CentOS does not have an NTP client by default but hopefully I can find it in those repositories.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Hmm good find. I'll have to give that a try. I still find it odd that CentOS does not have an NTP client by default but hopefully I can find it in those repositories.

The default repository has ntpd. I've installed it a million times.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Hmm appears "yum update" added it. I had to do a full yum update for another reason and it seems it added it. ntpdate is working now so I can add it in my crontab.

 

[Nothinman]

You shouldn't be using ntpdate via cron, maybe at bootup but that's it. ntpd should keep your time in sync during normal usage.

 

[Red Squirrel]

I have a daily cron job in conjunction with ntpdate daemon. I find if the time is way off ntpdate never ends up getting it right. There's not many situations I can think of where the time would get changed way off other then me messing around, but at least having it in cron guarantees it being in sync.

 

[Nothinman]

So you're using a cronjob as a bandaid for the fact that there's a minor chance you might accidentally change the time yourself? Wow...

 

[Colt45]

You never know, the wooden server rack could collapse, and a bit could get flipped somewhere. 😉