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Force NTP Time Update on Linux
on February 21, 2011 – 8:36 pm 11 Comments
Imagine this: you created the /etc/ntp.conf file, enabled and started the ntpd service, and… the system time is still off. Is there a way to force time sync with the NTP server? It must be your lucky day. All you have to do is to connect to your box as root and run the following command:
sntp -r pool.ntp.org # or ntpdate -u pool.ntp.org
The “pool.ntp.org” is a public NTP service. You can replace this with the fully-qualified DNS name or IP address of your own NTP server. Keep in mind that this command will sync date and time immediately – not gradually. So if you have some time-sensitive applications running, maybe you should schedule a brief outage to restart these applications.
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Or, if under OpenSuSE, you can resync the time by restarting ntpd as follows:
/etc/init.d/ntp restart
Again, run this either as root or from within the sudo command:
sudo /etc/init.d/ntp restart
I’ve tried searching for them, and the only thing I get are ads to buy a time server. Maybe at some point, but not right now, lol
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