Date and Time (I can't set it)

**Krytarik** · March 11th, 2011

Originally Posted by Sale

but I can manually run "ntpdate...". I don't get the "the NTP socket is in use, exiting" error anymore, even though the ntp service is running.

Then the ntp daemon isn't running. I get the error when I run ntpdate. Re-check what I wrote earlier.

**Sale** · March 11th, 2011

Code:

sale@sale-at-home:~$ service ntp status
 * NTP server is running
sale@sale-at-home:~$ sudo ntpdate pool.ntp.org
[sudo] password for sale: 
11 Mar 22:40:19 ntpdate[2866]: the NTP socket is in use, exiting
sale@sale-at-home:~$

It's ok now...I guess what i wrote before referred to the state of the system before the reboot...it's getting late here...

**Krytarik** · March 11th, 2011

Instead of simply waiting, you can also check "/var/log/daemon.log" for if ntp is doing its job. A handy tool for logs is "System -> Administration -> Log File Viewer".