From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020710 Description of problem: I am new to ntp and a bit confused, but it seems that dateconfig does not properly configure ntp when used with the default ntp.conf that comes with the redhat rpm. This default conf file has at the top: # Prohibit general access to this service. restrict default ignore This prohibits all access to ntp unless there is a restrict line of the form restrict mytrustedtimeserverip mask 255.255.255.255 nomodify notrap noquery for every server (if I understand correctly). As dateconfig doesnt add such a line when you select the server, it does not configure ntp to work properly. This means that you have to change the conf file by hand (and learn a lot about ntp), which defeats the purpose of a GUI. Perhaps I dont understand something, but it took me a long time to set up something which should be really simple. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.run dateconfig 2.select use ntp 3.select a server and apply Actual Results: Time doesnt get synced up and ntpq -p shows no activity. Expected Results: ntp does it's thing. Additional info:
Can you try redhat-config-date-1.5.3-1 from Rawhide? Things work fine for me with this version, although the 'restrict mytrustedtimeserverip mask 255.255.255.255 nomodify notrap noquery' does not seem to be necessary for NTP to work.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 70557 ***