BUG: check your ntpd, it may be dead

[John Aldrich]

On Thursday 14 April 2005 03:32 pm, Florin Andrei wrote:
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> I suspect quite a few people are affected by this problem, but not all
> are aware of it, ntpd being a less "visible" service:
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=154759
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> So, everyone, if you're running FC3 or FC2, please check your ntpd
> service and see if it's still running fine. Perhaps poke at it a little
> bit, restart the service and see if it comes up, even restart the whole
> machine (if possible) and see if ntpd is launched automatically.
>
> The whole thing seems to be a crapshoot, on some systems (typically new
> 2+GHz AthlonXP or Pentium M) ntpd is running fine, on some other systems
> (mostly PIII/800 Coppermine in my experience) it dies instantly. Maybe,
> if enough people report success/failure, a pattern will emerge.
>
Mine seems to be working fine:
ps aux | grep ntpd
ntp       3736  0.0  0.4  5756 5748 ?        SLs  Mar10   0:03 ntpd -u ntp:ntp 
-p /var/run/ntpd.pid