Getting an error when trying to start the “ntpdate.service” for RHEL7.1

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I am trying to restart services for openstack, and under my /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/ I run a systemctl start ntpdate.service and get the following error:

    May 31 12:05:39 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: Starting Set time via NTP...
    May 31 12:06:09 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: ntpdate.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
    May 31 12:06:09 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: Failed to start Set time via NTP.
    May 31 12:06:09 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: Unit ntpdate.service entered failed state.
    May 31 12:06:09 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: ntpdate.service failed.

I also can't seem to find the ntp.log in the /var/log/ directory. I believe this is also screwing up my rabbitmq-server.service, but one problem at the time.

Any suggestions?

Best Answer

I realized that ntpd was installed as well as the ntpdate.service, so they were conflicting with the port that they were using. I need to use ntpdate.service, so I just rand the command systemctl stop ntpd and then restarted ntpdate with systemctl start ntpd. I then checked the status with systemctl status ntpdate.service and it was active.

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