recent ntpd problems

[Peter J. Holzer]

On 2005-09-19 11:51:59 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Monday 19 September 2005 11:42, Peter J. Holzer wrote:
> >On 2005-09-19 10:48:34 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> >[new version of ntpd]
> >
> >> This latter version does not seem to be writing to /var/log/ntpd.log
> >> at all, so I have no idea what its doing.
> >
> >Have you started it with -l /var/log/ntpd.log? Normally ntpd writes to
> >syslog (and I believe this it has done this for the last 10 years or
> >so).
> 
> No, but I didn't have to before.  In the init.d/ntpd script, the ntpd
> starter is "daemon ntpd $OPTIONS" but I've NDI where $OPTIONS
> actually gets set.

It gets set in /etc/sysconfig/ntpd 

On my system it contains 

    # Drop root to id 'ntp:ntp' by default.  Requires kernel >= 2.2.18.
    OPTIONS="-U ntp -p /var/run/ntpd.pid"

which I believe is the default for FC2 (I certainly can't remember
changing it). AFAIR the default for (x)ntpd on Redhat systems has always
been to log to syslog since Redhat 3.0.3 (before I used Slackware, and I
think it was the same).

	hp


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