On Wed, 2003-11-19 at 11:02, Mike Klinke wrote: > 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) > <snip up2date install stuff> > > 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.) > Mike what happens if you use rpm to do the update to the fedora package? If you already said it worked sorry if I missed it. I am having trouble with believeing that it is up2date that is causing the problem rather than rpm itself or a mis packaged rpm in some manner. If it is up2date I have even less confidence in it. Bret
