Hi, Ted: Ted Gervais wrote: > Well I finally am moving away from netdate and have ntpd installed and > running. > I brought it up using ntpd -g, and hope that is ok. > > Also I have no idea that it is doing anthing? How do I know that it is > running. > The drift file has only one entry in it, and that is all zeros.. > > Is there some way that I can watch what is happening like the way I watch > log files using 'tail -f messages' ?? > > I have all the logfile stuff turned on so I can read any and all stuff that > is happening and yet while that says a few things I at this point don't > know that it is doing anything with the system time. > > I am running linux (slackware 10.2)..
Maybe you can try it with "ntpq -p" which shows you all configured time references (the "server" or "peer" lines in /etc/ntp.conf). If you want, you can run it periodically : "watch -n 1 ntpq -p" As ntpd is normally using the system log, a simple "tail -f /var/log/messages | grep ntp" would be another approach to monitor what is happening, but here you will not see a lot of things after the initial startup messages. Kind regards, Heiko _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
