I’m running this flavor of Linux on identical machines …
[dalvarado@machine2 ~]$ uname -a
Linux mydomain.org 3.10.32-35.201.amzn1.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu Aug 14 22:00:02 UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
I want the ntpd service installed and running on both
[dalvarado@machine2 ~]$ service ntpd status
ntpd (pid 3927) is running...
However, when I run the “date” command on each machine, the time differs by 30 seconds on each. I thought the point of ntpd was it was supposed to sync the machine’s time with the actual time (according to the all knowing Internet). How can I troubleshoot this problem or is there some other configuration I need to make with ntpd to get it to work?