On Wednesday 19 November 2003 15:38, Bob Arendt wrote: > I've uninstalled and re-installed ntp and looked at the post-install > script. Looks like the FC1 RPM is doing the right thing. It was *my* > dumbass entry for the drift file location that tripped me up. Sorry > for any confusion this may have caused. > -Bob Arendt > I'm not convinced that rpm/up2date is doing the right thing yet. Here is a sequence that I can run and duplicate (twice in a row now). 16:28:35 # ll /etc/ntp* -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2875 Nov 17 22:20 /etc/ntp.conf.bak (My backup file from a previous configuration which shouldn't play any part here) /etc/ntp: total 0 (An empty directory) 16:28:47 # rpm -qa | grep ntp- (Nothing installed) 16:29:18 # rpm -ivh /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/ntp-4.1.2-0.rc1.2.i386.rpm Preparing... ####################### [100%] 1:ntp ####################### [100%] (I installed the RH9 version) 16:31:04 # vi ntp.conf (To change the file for the correct server) 16:37:03 # up2date --nox -u ntp (Update to the Fedora version) Fetching package list for channel: fedora-core-1... Fetching http://fedora.redhat.com/releases/fedora-core-1/headers/header.info... ######################################## Fetching package list for channel: updates-released... Fetching http://fedora.redhat.com/updates/released/fedora-core-1/headers/header.info... ######################################## Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: fedora-core-1... Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: updates-released... Fetching rpm headers... ######################################## Name Version Rel ---------------------------------------------------------- ntp 4.1.2 5 i386 Testing package set / solving RPM inter-dependencies... ######################################## ntp-4.1.2-5.i386.rpm: ############### Done. Preparing ############### [100%] Installing... 1:ntp ############### [100%] 16:38:38 # ll ntp* -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2808 Nov 19 16:38 ntp.conf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2875 Nov 17 22:20 ntp.conf.bak -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2798 Oct 29 11:07 ntp.conf.rpmnew ntp: total 8 -rw-r--r-- 1 ntp ntp 4 Feb 13 2003 drift -rw------- 1 root root 266 Oct 29 11:07 keys -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Oct 29 11:07 step-tickers 16:39:03 # rpm -qa | grep ntp- ntp-4.1.2-0.rc1.2 ntp-4.1.2-5 (Clearly!! There's something amiss here.) Regards, Mike Klinke
