Over the years, We\u2019ve encountered many questions on how to correctly configure our Linux hosts to sync time to our enterprise NTP Servers.<\/p>\n
So, We thought why not create an article that outlines in the simplest form possible the correct way to configure the NTP Client to synchronize with NTP Servers.<\/p>\n
First of all, we need to install the ntpd<\/em><\/strong> and ntpdate<\/em><\/strong> clients on our Linux host. I\u2019m using CentOS, but it\u2019s the same in Ubuntu and so forth.<\/p>\n Now let\u2019s run the following command to configure the NTP Servers.<\/p>\n What we\u2019re doing is telling the ntpdate to use an unprivileged port for outgoing packets with the -u<\/em><\/strong> switch and to write logging output to the system syslog facility using the -s<\/em><\/strong> switch.<\/p>\n Next let\u2019s restart the ntpd<\/em><\/strong> daemon.<\/p>\n Now let\u2019s check if NTP synchronization is enabled and running.<\/p>\n And for the last, we will set the hardware clock to the current system time using the -w switch.<\/p>\n Congratulations! You\u2019ve now successfully set your NTP client on CentOS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Over the years, We\u2019ve encountered many questions on how to correctly configure our Linux hosts to sync time to our enterprise NTP Servers. So, We thought why not create an article that outlines in the simplest form possible the correct way to configure the NTP Client to synchronize with NTP Servers. 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yum install ntp ntpdate<\/code><\/pre>\n# systemctl start ntpd<\/code><\/pre>\n# systemctl enable ntpd<\/code><\/pre>\n# systemctl status ntpd<\/code><\/pre>\n# ntpdate -u -s 0.centos.pool.ntp.org 1.centos.pool.ntp.org 2.centos.pool.ntp.org<\/code><\/pre>\n# systemctl restart ntpd<\/code><\/pre>\n# timedatectl<\/code><\/pre>\n# hwclock -w<\/code><\/pre>\n