On Thursday 14 April 2005 22:09, Robert Locke wrote: >On Thu, 2005-04-14 at 12:32 -0700, Florin Andrei wrote: >> I suspect quite a few people are affected by this problem, but not >> all are aware of it, ntpd being a less "visible" service: >> >> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=154759 >> >> So, everyone, if you're running FC3 or FC2, please check your ntpd >> service and see if it's still running fine. Perhaps poke at it a >> little bit, restart the service and see if it comes up, even >> restart the whole machine (if possible) and see if ntpd is >> launched automatically. >> >> The whole thing seems to be a crapshoot, on some systems >> (typically new 2+GHz AthlonXP or Pentium M) ntpd is running fine, >> on some other systems (mostly PIII/800 Coppermine in my >> experience) it dies instantly. Maybe, if enough people report >> success/failure, a pattern will emerge. >> >> -- >> Florin Andrei >> >> http://florin.myip.org/ > >I'll add that my ntpd is not working. Failure began with the update > of the kernel to 2.6.11-1.14_FC3, but was fine under > 2.6.10-1.770_FC3. Interesting part is that the startup is declaring > that it is OK, but a check of the running processes finds no > instance of ntpd. The status declares that it is dead but pid file > exists. > >BTW, this is on a ThinkPad (Pentium M 1.6 w/ 1G RAM).... Here is another data point, on a 2.6.12-rc1 (or rc2) kernel, htop says its running, with this command line: ntpd -U ntp -p /var/run/ntpd.pid -g Biostar mobo, XP-2800 athlon >--Rob -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.34% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
