On 3/20/99 17:26, Ray Olszewski at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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>Checking /etc/services is not enough. You need to check /etc/inetd.conf and
>see if the time service is being run or is commented out (has # as first
>character in the line).
>
>Older distributions defaulted to running almost every inetd service. As this
>was increasingly recognized as a security weakness, most moved to running
>only the few services that even beginners would know about, like telnet and
>ftp, and commenting the others out (based on the assumption that if you knew
>enough about the service to want it, you also knew how to activate it).
>
>If it is commented out in inetd.conf, just uncomment the line, save the
>file, and restart inetd.
>
Ray and Richard,
Thanks for your pointers to inetd and inetd.conf. I don't have this
thing completely worked out yet, but due to your help, I was able to
follow the inetd trail to several man pages and eventually
/usr/doc/packages/xntp. As you have said so often, Richard, there is a
great deal of information available on one's own machine. You just have
to read it.
As I said, I haven't gotten this thing completely licked yet. It looks
like I will have to set up xntpd to start at boot, and I may have to add
a line or two to my inetd.conf file. I will let you know how it works
out.
>At 06:08 AM 3/20/99 -0500, T. Sean (Theo) Schulze wrote [abridged]:
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>>When I enter 'ntpdate -dv 192.168.0.3', I get an error message back
>>saying "No server suitable for synchronization found". I can ping the
>>other machine, 192.168.0.3 (the Linux box), just fine, so it is not a
>>network problem. (At least, I don't know what I don't know that might
>>make it a network problem.) ntpdate sends its packets to port 123, and
>>my /etc/services shows ntp on that port with both tcp and ucp. So, that
>>should work, shouldn't it?
Cheers,
Sean
Theo. Sean Schulze
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