Saturday, September 8, 2007, 1:28:42 PM, you wrote: >>Hmmm... Although I disabled selinux, I didn't have 'selinux=0' in my >>grub.conf. Probably it gets disabled somewhere else. > No, that is the only way to shut it completely off. This is a known FC7 > problem. Setting it to be permissive as you did in the install is not > sufficient to allow ntp to work. As I remember, during installation there was an option to set selinux to permissive mode or to disable it. I choose 'Disable'. Anyway, now I have 'selinux=0' parameter in grub.conf, so it should be disabled. >>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 >> >> >>[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 > And why is it restarting? I don't know the answer there, but someplace in a > log, there should be a clue. I don't know either... Above I provided all the logs regarding ntpd. There's nothing special, really... It's almost the same as on my Fedora Core 6 machine, except that ntp here is not getting synced...