Failed to restart ntpd.service

Question

I'm trying to fix error RequestTimeTooSkewed i get when trying to deploy a project to amazon servers i found this article.

http://www.emind.co/how-to/how-to-fix-amazon-s3-requesttimetooskewed/

I was following the steps but stucked at restarting the ntp service.

I used service.ntpd restartcommand but i get a error saying

Failed to restart ntpd.service: Unit ntpd.service not found.

How can i fix this?

score 9 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 21 '16 at 06:31

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Try

$ systemctl start ntpd

If that doesn't work, probably ntp is not installed. Try installing it first.

$ sudo yum install ntp

answered Sep 21 '16 at 06:31

greenhorn

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$ systemctl start ntpd gives me the same error and i have used yum previously. it too did not work – Alpha Dog Sep 21 '16 at 06:44
can you do `rpm -q ntp` please – user3788685 Sep 24 '16 at 16:52
I was able to use `sudo apt install -y ntp`. Thanks for the hint. +1 – Ryan Jan 31 '20 at 17:10

score 5 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 13 '20 at 19:53

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The following worked for me.

$ apt install ntpdate
$ apt install ntp
$ ntpdate -u "in.pool.ntp.org"
$ sudo service ntp restart

Note: Replace the server url "in.pool.net.org" with the ntp server available in your country.

answered Oct 13 '20 at 19:53

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score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Feb 17 '22 at 19:07

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These two commands fixed things for me in Ubuntu 20.04 server edition:

sudo apt-get install ntp
sudo service ntp restart

answered Feb 17 '22 at 19:07

user3503711

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score 0 · Answer 4 · edited Jun 20 '20 at 09:12

Although this doesn't resolve your problem with ntpd specifically, here are some relevant docs on time-sync with npd on ubuntu that may be of help to some.

The key portion here is:

In recent Ubuntu releases timesyncd replaces the client portion of ntpd. By default timesyncd regularly checks and keeps the time in sync. It also stores time updates locally, so that after reboots monotonically advances if applicable.

The current status of time and time configuration via timedatectl and timesyncd can be checked with timedatectl status.

In summary: if timedatectl status shows Network time on: yes, then your system is already configured to use ntp in a similar way that would have been achieved with ntpd. This should be the default behavior for "recent" ubuntu releases (confirmed in 16.04).

score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Jun 08 '20 at 10:12

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On Ubuntu, the service name for ntpd is ntp, not ntpd. So try

$ sudo service ntp restart

or, equivalently

$ sudo systemctl restart ntp

answered Jun 08 '20 at 10:12

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score 0 · Answer 6 · answered May 13 '21 at 16:25

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Keep Your Virtual OS machine running on Bridge Adapter and then try -

First run -> yum install ntp and the run

systemctl start ntpd

answered May 13 '21 at 16:25

shubham chitre

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Failed to restart ntpd.service

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