Re: How to keep sensors in sync using NTP?

From: Thomas Phelan (tephelan@usa.net)
Date: 10/16/02 

Date: 16 Oct 2002 13:59:28 -0000
From: Thomas Phelan <tephelan@usa.net>
To: focus-ids@securityfocus.com
('binary' encoding is not supported, stored as-is) In-Reply-To: <20021015125631.23817.qmail@mail.securityfocus.com>

You will need to set the correct local time zone.

Create a symbolic link from local time to your time zone:
ln –sf ../usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Pacific /etc/localtime

Set hwclock to system clock:
/sbin/hwclock --systohc --utc

This is a little old, but the idea is the same.

Thomas Phelan
System Security Engineer
Satellite & Launch Control
                
On Tue, 2002-10-15 at 05:56, Bruno Sicchieri wrote:
>
>Hi all,
>
>I´ve just installed Snort,......
>the clocks, using NTP:
>
>1) Editing the /etc/ntp.conf file and changing the server entry to
reflect
>
>I´m using "ntp-4.1.1" and writing
>from "/usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Sao_Paulo" with "UTC=true"
>in /etc/sysconfig/clock file.
>
>Everything looks OK but the sensors stay 2 hours in advance. I already
>read the NTP manual but I still can´t figure out what is happen.
>
>Anyone could help please?
>
>Thanks, Bruno.
>

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