On Mon, 06 Oct 2003 08:48:58 +1200 Andrew Errington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thanks Nick, > > I will try an explicit path, and see if it works tonight. I am guessing > that although ntpdate will be, er, excised, it will never leave Debian 3.0, > so I only have to address the problem if I change or upgrade my > distribution. of course the package may be updated without the whole distro being updated (thru some apt-frenzy). I guess there will be plenty of warning if ntpdate does go. then again maybe the man page is the warning. easy to substitute for ntpd -q now I guess... > > Andy > > On Mon, 06 Oct 2003 09:39, you wrote: > > cron often has problems with the environment, it might not know about > > your PATH. give it the full path to ntpdate. > > > > BTW ntpdate is deprecated and is to be removed from the ntp packeage. > > see man ntpdate, viz: > > > > " ntpdate - set the date and time via NTP > > > > Disclaimer: The functionality of this program is now available > > in the ntpd program. See the -q command line option in the ntpd - > > Network Time Protocol (NTP) daemon page. After a suitable period of > > mourning, the ntpdate program is to be retired from this distribution" > > > > > > On Mon, 06 Oct 2003 09:33:15 +1300 > > > > Jim Cheetham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 09:22, Andrew Errington wrote: > > > > 10 3 * * * ntpdate ntp.public.otago.ac.nz > > > > 10 3 * * * touch ~ame/rootwashere > > > > > > > > So, cron seems to be working and doing stuff at 03:10. ntpdate works > > > > from the command line. Why does ntpdate from root's crontab not > > > > appear to work? > > > > > > I don't see anything obvious ... however, you should probably try to > > > get some debug output from ntpdate. > > > > > > Try > > > > > > */5 * * * * ntpdate -d ntp.public.otago.ac.nz && touch ~ame/rootwashere > > > > > > which will kick off every 5 minutes, produce copious output that might > > > get emailed to root and thence yourself, and only touch the status file > > > if the ntpdate command worked ... > > > > > > -jim > -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
