jam725 wrote: > Is there anyone who can help with untangling some ntp issues in > busybox? I have an Atmel STK1000 dev kit (AVR32, AP7000 ARM 7 > processor) and want to turn it into an NTP server. I'm running > busybox and have added ntp utilities through buildroot, but don't know > what I need to do to synchronize this board to external servers. I > have followed the advice from this walk-through: > http://www.linuxhomenetworking.com/wiki/index.php/Quick_HOWTO_:_Ch24_:_The_NTP_Server > > but have hit some snags where certain commands are not supported in > busybox (service start/stop/reset, chkconfig). At boot ntpd looks to > read from somewhere: > It wants a file called ntp.conf. Since I have never seen or heard of a "busybox" I probably can't help you much with where to put the file. On a Unix box it defaults to /etc.
The ntp.conf file typically contains from four to seven server statements which look like: server 192.168.1.23 server 10.1.1.13 etc. You may use the names instead of the numeric IP addresses. > Running ntpdate: 16 Dec 17:39:43 ntpdate[411]: step time server > 155.101.3.114 offset 1260988767.511027 sec > done > > but issuing an ntpdate command returns: > > 16 Dec 18:22:01 ntpdate[444]: no servers can be used, exiting > An ntpdate command requires the name or IP address of a server. > what can I do to test that this is working? 'pgrep ntpd' returns only > one process number where the above link makes it sound I should be > seeing several. No! There should be one and only one ntpd process! <snip> _______________________________________________ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
