Re: NTP
At 7:37 PM +0100 9/12/05, Paul Howarth wrote:
On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 13:09 -0500, Michael Yep wrote:
> How do I find if I'm running ntp?
$ /sbin/service ntpd status
or Applications menu -> System Settings submenu -> Server Settings submenu
-> Services item (aka system-config-services).
> I looked for /etc/ntpd.conf but it doesn't exist
I often use locate (or really, Actions menu -> Search for files) to get a
clue. "locate ntpd" turns up a few things, including some initscripts and
/etc/sysconfig/ntpd.
> What is the package name to download?
Surprisingly enough:
# yum install ntp
If I think I know the package name I try "yum info ntp". If I'm not quite
sure but have a guess I try "yum list \*ntp\*". When I have little clue I
try "yum search ntpd". If that doesn't work I may try "yum provides
ntpd".
(Unfortunately the string "ntp" appears many places so there is /lots/ of
output, and "yum provides network time" works as badly as the stock
apropos, printing all the matches for "network" and all the matches for
"time".)
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