keeping good time

[Jeff Vian]

On Mon, 2005-05-09 at 15:12 -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote:
> On Mon, 9 May 2005, Markku Kolkka wrote:
> 
> > Michael Hennebry kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika maanantai, 9.
> > toukokuuta 2005 21:02):
> 
> > > ntpd is the only automated mechanism of which I am aware,
> > > but ps -C ntpd didn't turn up any process until I started ntpd
> > > by hand.
> >
> > There's a bug that causes ntpd occasionally to crash immediately
> > after start:
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=156603
> 
> Thanks.
> The workaround isn't clear to me.
> Do I replace
> daemon ntpd $OPTIONS
> with
> daemon execstack -s /usr/sbin/ntpd
> in /etc/init.d/ntpd ?
> 

Several of us saw this bug when the updates produced it.

The workaround was to manually run "service ntpd start" one or more
times until the service actually started.  After getting it to start the
bug problem disappeared and it automatically starts again.


> -- 
> Mike   hennebry at web.cs.ndsu.NoDak.edu
> "There are three kinds of people,
> those who can count and those who can't."
> 
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