Re: [ntp:questions] ntpdate unexpected behaviour

2017-08-03 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Aug 3, 2017, at 7:27 AM, Leandro Martelli wrote: > I just came across a non-intuitive ntpdate case caused by my firewall > configuration. > > My firewall outbound rules include something like: > > - allow from udp 123 to udp 123 > - allow from udp 1-2 to any Try: all from udp any to

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP not reading from /etc/ntp.conf?

2017-08-03 Thread CubeCentral
This is a classic problem that arises when the system is booting from DHCP. This is a link I had saved that describes the problem and points to a solution: https://serverfault.com/questions/329596/how-to-override-the-ntp-information -sent-by-dhcp-in-debian Please let me know if this worked and if

[ntp:questions] ntpdate unexpected behaviour

2017-08-03 Thread Leandro Martelli
Hi, I just came across a non-intuitive ntpdate case caused by my firewall configuration. My firewall outbound rules include something like: - allow from udp 123 to udp 123 - allow from udp 1-2 to any The first line ensures NTPd will work, which is fine. The second line was spotted afte

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP not reading from /etc/ntp.conf?

2017-08-03 Thread Dan Geist
Check the process running with something like "ps -Aef | grep ntpd" to be sure things are running how you think they are. "/etc/ntp.conf" is the default but there may be something passing an alternate config file to the daemon with the -c flag on startup. Also, see if you have something like ti

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP not reading from /etc/ntp.conf?

2017-08-03 Thread Martin Burnicki
Kevin Chan wrote: > I'm on an imx233 arm processor using Debian 7.0 with kernel version 3.12 > > I'm having issues configuring ntpd to read from a gps source. I have tried > adding server entries in /etc/ntp.conf, but those changes have no effect on > the sources listed in ntpq -p > > The only th

[ntp:questions] NTP not reading from /etc/ntp.conf?

2017-08-03 Thread Kevin Chan
I'm on an imx233 arm processor using Debian 7.0 with kernel version 3.12 I'm having issues configuring ntpd to read from a gps source. I have tried adding server entries in /etc/ntp.conf, but those changes have no effect on the sources listed in ntpq -p The only thing I see is: root@arm:~# ntpq