Chris & Gisela Slater-Walker said: > I don't know about the NTP client/server you are using but I use a > piece of freeware called Chrony. It's easier to set up than xntpd, > although it doesn't have certain options like broadcasting time to a > subnet etc. I have found it very reliable.
Hi Chris, thanks for the reply. After a little more looking, I found an interesting page (http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~ntp/ntpfaq/NTP-s-config.htm) that says that, yes, ntp (or more specifically ntpdate) only goes out and syncs the time once and never again and points out that, well, you could put that in a cron job, but then you really don't have yourself a self-sustaining time server, do you? xntpd kept itself up to date (that's what I was running back in the day) and then xntpd stopped being shipped in most distros (why was that, anyway?) and replaced with ntp. Doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me since xntpd would do ntp's job, then some. Cheers, -Charlie > > Chris Slater-Walker > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Charlie Bebber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Saturday, December 01, 2001 10:06 PM > Subject: [expert] NTP -- driving me crazy! > > >> >> I had this working many moons ago, but with new upgrades/installs, >> it's > all >> been lost and I can't remember what I did (but I know it's not that > hard -- >> that's why it's driving me crazy). >> >> So here's what I've got going on: >> >> - ntp installed on all of my machines >> - ntp configured on fileserver to sync to external time server >> (doesn't > stay >> synced, however). >> - ntp configured on remaining nodes to sync with fileserver who is > supposed >> to allow that >> >> But what's happening is that the ntp on the fileserver will start up, >> sync with the external time server, but down the line, the time begins >> to drift and according to my syslog, there were never any more >> attempts to keep > time >> synced (ntp-4.1.0-1mdk installed on every one of them). >> >> And on the local clients, in my /etc/ntp.conf, I've got 10.1.1.3 (the >> IP > for >> the fileserver) set for the server. That never worked so I stuck it >> in my /etc/ntp/step-tickers and still, no love. Here's what I get: >> >> ntpdate[13387]: no server suitable for synchronization found >> >> I portscanned the fileserver and 123 isn't even open (shouldn't it be >> listening on that port?). When I do a 'ps auxw |grep ntp' on the >> fileserver, all I've got is 'ntp -A'. Should there be anything else >> in order to allow other nodes to sync? >> >> So what am I missing here? I'm all out of ideas. >> >> Thanks in advance, >> >> -Charlie >> -- >> GPG Key fingerprint = 4F36 EC4F 2F2C 5F59 9690 09E5 4C0F 9DB0 8623 >> 53CE >> >> >> >> > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------> ---- > > >> Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? >> Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- GPG Key fingerprint = 4F36 EC4F 2F2C 5F59 9690 09E5 4C0F 9DB0 8623 53CE
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