ntpq no longer working -
Bob Goodwin
bobgoodwin at wildblue.net
Mon May 22 15:45:08 UTC 2006
Tim wrote:
> taharka:
>
>>> Any hints/errors in /var/log/ntp?
>>>
>
>
> Bob Goodwin
>
>> I haven't found any such log, locate *log*ntp* produces nothing I
>> recognize as useful?
>>
>
> I think you have to reconfigure NTP to use its own log if you want to
> that, else you just get some basic details logged in /var/log/messages.
>
>
>
>> I did find: /usr/bin/ntpstat
>> synchronised to NTP server (198.82.1.203) at stratum 3
>> time correct to within 79 ms
>> polling server every 512 s
>>
>> Which seems to indicate ntp is working at least but I don't have the
>> convenient data display I am accustomed to.
>>
>
> It seems peculiar to your machine, not FC5 in general, I just got a
> friend with FC5 and ntp-4.2.0.a.20050816-11 to send me the output of
> "/usr/sbin/ntpq -p", and he got normal results:
>
> remote refid st t when poll reach delay offset jitter
> ==============================================================================
> *kuglof.mostovna .GPS. 1 u 519 1024 277 390.239 -77.177 11.863
> +isdn-111.uninet 194.204.30.15 2 u 323 1024 377 402.333 -36.140 2.092
> +cheddar.halon.o 195.234.188.3 2 u 74 1024 377 342.345 -30.247 0.864
>
>
Yes, that is the sort of data I normally see.
> I suppose there's a few things that could be throwing a spanner in the
> works (SELinux, DNS resolution, network routing).
>
>
Selinux is off, I have used numerical addresses, network routing?
> Something that I've seen mentioned regarding other problems, at least,
> is NTP running more than once. I don't know how or why that happens,
> but I've seen it happen here, and odd things happen because of it
Ed Greshko asked -
service ntpd status
ntpd (pid 18799) is running...
I forgot to provide that in the last message.
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