Re: How to keep sensors in sync using NTP?

From: Skip Carter (skip@taygeta.com)
Date: 10/15/02


To: Bruno Sicchieri <bsicchieri@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 11:44:01 -0700
From: Skip Carter <skip@taygeta.com>


 
> In one of the sections (Network Time Protocol - NTP) he explain how to
> keep accurate time on the sensors (Snort) without having to manually set
> the clocks, using NTP:
 

> Everything looks OK but the sensors stay 2 hours in advance. I already
> read the NTP manual but I still canīt figure out what is happen.
>

  Try manually setting the system clocks to reasonably close to the
true time first. NTP will not adjust the clock if the time difference
between the time server and the local system (after accounting for
time zone differences) is too large.

Skip

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