Centos Howto: Set up NTP


This is how to set up NTP on a CentOS box, but you can use these directions for any Linux, just alter the install method to suit, ie: For Debian, use apt-get install ntp rather than yum install ntp.

   1. su root
   2. yum install ntp
   3. /sbin/chkconfig ntpd on
   4. /sbin/ntpdate pool.ntp.org
   5. /etc/init.d/ntpd start
   6. use the date command to make sure everything is working