-----Original Message----- From: Steffen Kluge <kluge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 03:34:10PM +1000 To For users of Fedora Core releases Subject: Re: FC4 NTPD problem > On Thu, 2005-09-22 at 14:07 -0700, jdow wrote: > > Vikram needs to provide some information from his ntp.conf file. > > It may be setup wrong. It is also possible he has recompiled his > > kernel. There are options that make ntp synchronization very poor. > > >From the error message he's getting this doesn't look like an ntpd > problem at all. When the init script says "Synchronizing with time > server:" it actually runs ntpdate. This happens whenever there is either > a non-zero /etc/ntp/step-tickers file, or the -x options is > given /etc/sysconfig/ntpd. My /etc/sysconfig/ntpd is: [root@fc4host ~]# cat /etc/sysconfig/ntpd # Drop root to id 'ntp:ntp' by default. Requires kernel >= 2.2.18. OPTIONS="-u ntp:ntp -p /var/run/ntpd.pid" And step-tickers is: [root@fc4host ~]# cat /etc/ntp/step-tickers 0.pool.ntp.org 1.pool.ntp.org 2.pool.ntp.org clock.redhat.com 127.127.1.0 Thanks! -- vikram... |||||||| |||||||| ^^'''''^^||root||^^^'''''''^^ // \\ )) //(( \\// \\ // /\\ || \\ || / )) (( \\ -- Soitainly. I was assuming that came with the OO-ness of it. -- Larry Wall in <199710011802.LAA21692@xxxxxxxx> -- _ ~|~ = Registered Linux User #285795