taharka: >> Any hints/errors in /var/log/ntp? Bob Goodwin > I haven't found any such log, locate *log*ntp* produces nothing I > recognize as useful? I think you have to reconfigure NTP to use its own log if you want to that, else you just get some basic details logged in /var/log/messages. > I did find: /usr/bin/ntpstat > synchronised to NTP server (198.82.1.203) at stratum 3 > time correct to within 79 ms > polling server every 512 s > > Which seems to indicate ntp is working at least but I don't have the > convenient data display I am accustomed to. It seems peculiar to your machine, not FC5 in general, I just got a friend with FC5 and ntp-4.2.0.a.20050816-11 to send me the output of "/usr/sbin/ntpq -p", and he got normal results: remote refid st t when poll reach delay offset jitter ============================================================================== *kuglof.mostovna .GPS. 1 u 519 1024 277 390.239 -77.177 11.863 +isdn-111.uninet 194.204.30.15 2 u 323 1024 377 402.333 -36.140 2.092 +cheddar.halon.o 195.234.188.3 2 u 74 1024 377 342.345 -30.247 0.864 I suppose there's a few things that could be throwing a spanner in the works (SELinux, DNS resolution, network routing). Something that I've seen mentioned regarding other problems, at least, is NTP running more than once. I don't know how or why that happens, but I've seen it happen here, and odd things happen because of it. -- (Currently running FC4, in case that's important to the thread) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
