Saturday, September 8, 2007, 12:37:01 PM, you wrote:
> And that fairly screams that its an selinux problem, one that setting it to
> permissive mode does NOT fix in my experience.
I disabled selinux already during the installation.
> Append to the end of the kernel arguments line in your grub.conf, 'selinux=0'
> without the quotes and reboot. If that fixes it, throw it back at the
> selinux mailing list where Stephen Smalley hangs out.
Hmmm... Although I disabled selinux, I didn't have 'selinux=0' in my
grub.conf. Probably it gets disabled somewhere else. Anyway, I added
this parameter and rebooted the system. Still no changes in ntpd
behavior.
Sep 8 12:56:10 frontend_light ntpdate[1943]: step time server 66.187.233.4 offset -65.237699 sec
Sep 8 12:56:10 frontend_light ntpd[1945]: ntpd 4.2.4p2@xxxxxxxx Tue Aug 21 14:07:56 UTC 2007 (1)
Sep 8 12:56:10 frontend_light ntpd[1946]: precision = 1.000 usec
Sep 8 12:56:10 frontend_light ntpd[1946]: Listening on interface #0 wildcard, 0.0.0.0#123 Disabled
Sep 8 12:56:10 frontend_light ntpd[1946]: Listening on interface #1 wildcard, ::#123 Disabled
Sep 8 12:56:10 frontend_light ntpd[1946]: Listening on interface #2 lo, ::1#123 Enabled
Sep 8 12:56:10 frontend_light ntpd[1946]: Listening on interface #3 eth0, fe80::230:5ff:fe22:857#123 Enabled
Sep 8 12:56:10 frontend_light ntpd[1946]: Listening on interface #4 lo, 127.0.0.1#123 Enabled
Sep 8 12:56:10 frontend_light ntpd[1946]: Listening on interface #5 eth0, 172.23.0.133#123 Enabled
Sep 8 12:56:10 frontend_light ntpd[1946]: kernel time sync status 0040
Sep 8 12:56:11 frontend_light ntpd[1946]: frequency initialized 0.000 PPM from /var/lib/ntp/drift
On my Fedora 6 machine ntpd is working fine:
6 Sep 23:13:05 ntpd[2770]: synchronized to 128.10.252.10, stratum 2
7 Sep 03:20:43 ntpd[2770]: synchronized to 130.89.164.77, stratum 2
7 Sep 04:46:10 ntpd[2770]: synchronized to 128.10.252.10, stratum 2
7 Sep 06:47:57 ntpd[2770]: synchronized to 130.89.164.77, stratum 2
7 Sep 07:53:58 ntpd[2770]: synchronized to 128.10.252.10, stratum 2
[root@frontend_light ~]# ntpq -p
remote refid st t when poll reach delay offset jitter
==============================================================================
balthazar.tihld 192.36.144.22 2 u 15 64 377 41.875 -3341.6 1648.40
bbs.csie.ncyu.e 220.130.158.71 3 u 13 64 377 364.927 -3354.8 1646.82
hobbes.macvaerk 193.162.142.71 3 u 14 64 377 128.439 -3332.9 1608.39
[root@frontend_light ~]# ntpstat
unsynchronised
time server re-starting
polling server every 64 s
[root@frontend_light ~]#
