Somebody in the thread at some point said: >>> 128.439 -3332.9 1608.39 [root@frontend_light ~]# ntpstat >>> unsynchronised >>> time server re-starting Is ntpd running after this? # ps -Af | grep ntpd >> 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... I guess I would strace ntpd, then. If it was selinux, you'd be seeing avc messages in your /var/log/messages anyway. # service ntpd stop # strace -f ntpd -u ntp:ntp -p /var/run/ntpd.pid -g -Andy