On Sunday 22 April 2007 18:19, Scott Berry wrote: > Nigel, what would you want to ping? I think you could put a line in that > script to do that. > > Scott Pinging a server on the Internet isn't really the problem, as long as nobody get's T'd off on getting a ping on a daily basis. All I want is a script that will continually send a ping to <some server>, then when the Internet connection is up, and it gets a positive response from the server, will then run /usr/local/bin/ntp-restart, and terminate the ping. This will then restart the ntp daemon, and all of the servers listed in /etc/ntp.conf will be polled. At the moment when the ntp daemon is started at bootup on FC2, I get varying results. Post bootup I connect to the Internet, and sometimes just one of the six timeservers is listed when running ntpq> pe, and sometimes 4 of the timeservers are listed, but never the 6. If I do an /etc/init.d/ntpd stop, followed by an /etc/init.d start, then run ntpq, I see all 6 Internet timeservers listed. There is a problem with the ntp daemon, at least on FC2, when no Internet connection is available at bootup. Nigel.
