Problem: NTP not running on efw startup. Can use command line to start... " ntpd " but still shows under "Status" menu as "stopped". Will work once I use command "ntpd" and seems to work as normal, but still shows as "stopped" under menu "Status" menu. This is on Endian 5.1 Community.
History of how problem happened: I had an EFW 4.1 installation that I wanted to upgrade to 5.1. I had so many ip address reservations that I did not want to re-build all the configurations. I exported the configuration from the old EFW 4.1 and saved it. Then, I installed fresh onto different hardware EFW 5.1. I exported and saved the configuration for the now new EFW 5.1, extracted the necessary config files, and copied-and-pasted the ip address assignments for static ip addresses from the 4.1 configuration into the 5.1 configuration. I re-gzipped it all up and imported into the new hardware (the EFW 5.1). That's when I noticed this problem. I have since taken the EFW 5.1 configuration from this machine and exported it, and re-imported it into different hardware (minus the businfotab trick) so I can restore to different hardware. The problem is the same. So in an attempt to fix it, I exported this same EFW 5.1 config and then re-imported it just to see if maybe some permissions problem would be automatically resolved this way. But, the ntp problem is the same. It is possible that I accidentally imported into the EFW 5.1 some files from the EFW 4.1 configuration export. I also compared the contents of a fresh, clean EFW 5.1 configuration export with the contents of the problematic EFW 5.1 configuration files to see the differences. They were remarkably similar and with my limited knowledge (but growing) of Linux I could not find any differences. I also used the command "vi" in the console of the problematic EFW 5.1 to check configuration files related to ntp and they all seemed fine. I noticed that the file "drift" was nonexistent so I created it, but that did not solve the problem. I used another efw 5.1 that I know to be clean and working to compare. So, long explanation, probably there is a short solution? :) Any thoughts, anyone? Thanks to Endian, as always, I personally appreciate the work you do. - Chad May ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Efw-user mailing list Efw-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/efw-user
