I'm on a roll... been asking a lot of questions... but you folks have been
great!
I have an unresolved issue with xntpd that I can't quite figure out. When
I first configured it a few months ago it seemed to run just fine. On a
somehwhat regular basis (every few hours) it would write a message like
time reset -0.162098 s
into the system log. This made me feel good. Then, strangely, about a
month ago or more these messages stopped appearing. I don't know of any
changes I made on the system at that time... but I might be overlooking
something. I tried restarting the daemon (a couple of times) and it did
it's usual things... but no "time reset" messages. It did give me messages
like:
synchronized to xx.xx.xx.xx, stratum=1
(with a real IP address, of course). This left me wondering if it was
really doing it's job. Am I to believe that all of a sudden my machine no
longer needed any time adjustments when for weeks before it needed a nudge
a couple of times each day? Hmmm.
I decided to not worry about it until I upgraded my system to v5.1 (was
using v5.0a). Now the xntpd daemon starts okay (and writes a message
saying so into the system log) but there are no follow-up messages about
it whatsoever. There are not even any "synchronzied" messages.
I checked to see if my configuration survived the upgrade and it
apparently did. I'm currently using xntpd version: ntpd 4.0.98a Thu Aug 24
23:12:07 EDT 2000.
A couple of other odd things: It seems to me that in the past (when it was
working as I expected) there were two xntpd processes going, one the child
of the other. That is not the case now. There is only one. Furthermore,
one of the xntpd processes had a nice value of -12 (or something like
that) I don't see that process now. So something seems to be up.
TIA
Peter
P.S. Yes, I noticed the Compaq security advisory on xntpd. I'll be
checking into that too.
Received on Thu May 03 2001 - 16:11:42 NZST