On 2004.04.03 09:22, Edenyard wrote:
I'm trying to get two networked Linux boxes to show the same time in X by using ntp. I'm running ntpd on the main one and I've added the IP address of the secondary one to /etc/ntp.conf. However, using ntpdate doesn't set the secondary PC's clock to agree with the main PC, because ntpdate complains that the main PC is too high a stratum.
Do you have something like this in the ntp.conf on each machine?
# ... and use the local system clock as a reference if all else fails server 127.127.1.0 fudge 127.127.1.0 stratum 10
If so I am guessing that the secondary PC is refusing to sync to a server that appears to be in the same stratum as itself, i.e. 10. You could change the PC you want to use as the master to stratum 9 and see if that solves it.
Steve.