Brett, Do you know if SWAT comes with samba when you download it from samba.org? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bret Hughes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, February 01, 2003 5:12 PM Subject: Re: NTP Problem
> On Sat, 2003-02-01 at 14:00, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: > > On Sat, 1 Feb 2003, Bret Hughes wrote: > > > > > I don;t have an 8.0 machine to look at. Has redhat modified network > > > startup scripts to slurp ntp servers from dhcp information? > > > > Yup. And the default configuration is now to ignore everything except > > localhost, so every time dhclient runs, it picks up the NTP servers from > > DHCP, then promptly ignores them. If you change ntp.conf but not > > dhclient.conf, then your ntp.conf will be overwritten whenever your DHCP > > lease is renewed. > > > > Basically, all my patch does is change "default ignore" to "default > > nomodify," which is functional but safe. > > > > I hope you submitted the patch to bugzilla. This is pretty cool > functionality if they can get it right. Does dhclient also place the > ntpserver(s?) into /etc/ntp/step-tickers so that when ntp is started via > the normal redhat init.d/ntpd script there will be something to run > ntpdate against? > > This the beginnings of having enough reasons to look at upgrading. to > 8.x. I have 42 machines in the field that are on three different > networks served by dhcp and ntpd from the gateway and it is one of the > things someone is apt to forget when a machine is replaced. It does not > happen often, but often enough that I wrote a script that runs ntpq -p > on each of them periodically from our central office to make sure they > are in sync. > > Bret > > > > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
