ntpd vs selinux

[Gene Heskett]

Tim wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-07-02 at 11:00 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> This avahi-daemon is a new item to me.  Should I bugzilla it for not
>> restarting ntpd if it was found to be running?
> 
> Hmm, not sure.  The problem really is with NTP that it doesn't sort
> something like that out for itself.  We can't really expect any
> networking system to go around restarting every server, nor would we
> want it to, every time your IP changed.
> 
> It is a known problem with NTP, and I seem to recall that they were
> trying to come up with a solution.  I just worked around it by running a
> script after a PPP interface has gone up.  The system scripts are set up
> to call something afterwards, but I forget the filename for certain.
> All I had to do was put my NTP restart command into it.
> 

I suppose I could do that, but no more often than it happens, I'll just 
see if the old fart can remember to just restart it when the logs start 
that stuff.

Thanks.

> This script is run after an interface goes up, it notifies things that
> want to be notified (NTP ought to be one of them), and you can customise
> it yourself:  /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-post (though I don't
> know what'll happen next time it gets updated by YUM).
> 
> I don't have a copy of what I did before, anymore, to check.
> 


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Cheers, Gene