have been asked by IT to help them with a Unix system they have. It's SCO Unix (uname -a gives UNIX_SV, 4.2mp 2.1.3 i686 x86at).
They are trying to use ntpdate to synch with a Win2K server that is acting as a ntp server. For testing we ran ntpdate servername and get the message "No servers available for synchronization". 1. The Win2K server is in the hosts file and can be pinged. 2. DNS does work - I set it up and tested it. What does this message mean - does it mean that it found the server but didn't like something about it or can it not find the server? I also tried the -o option for ntpdate. In the process of troubleshooting we thought there might be problems with the network setup so we tried the following. This machine is no a network with a mask of 255.255.252.0 as is the server it's trying to get to. 1. First I tried the admin tools to set the netmask by selecting other and putting in the mask. When the system was restarted it wouldn't talk to anything and trying to change the route settings via the admin tool gave a "there's an error - see your administrator" - I was the administrator - let me in to fix it! -but using ifconfig to change the netmask and doing a down, then up on the interface allowed us to connect. However, the changes made by ifconfig did not stick during reboots. What's going on here? 2. We tried to add the route -n default nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn 1 for the default gate way. The route command didn't give an error but nothing changed in the routing table as listed by netstat -r. 3. The route command will give "To fix" errors on many of the commands such as add or delete listed in the man page. What is it trying to tell me? As far as I could tell the syntax was correct. Thanks for any help. -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] AKA Grunt <>< Registered Linux User #188143 Remove R777 to email _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
