I'm not sure if "kill -SIGHUP `pgrep ntp`" will work with Solaris ntp. AFAIK, SIGHUP would trigger the application to reload its configuration.
I based my first reply on how we handle ntp restart in cfengine:) Maybe it's time for you to use automation tool to manage those 2000 unix boxes. (sunos_5_8|sunos_5_9).hup_ntpd:: "/etc/init.d/xntpd stop ; /etc/init.d/xntpd start" sunos_5_10.hup_ntpd:: "/usr/sbin/svcadm restart ntp" redhat.hup_ntpd:: "/sbin/service ntpd reload" -- Greek Ordono vmlinuz|genunix|vmkernel admin myppa: launchpad.net/~grexk/+archive/ppa ________________________________ From: philip morales <[email protected]> To: Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Technical Discussion List <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, July 7, 2011 6:18:21 PM Subject: Re: [plug] NTP alias migration But is there a way to force ntp to re-discover new host without restarting? I have more than 2000 unix servers global. On Jul 7, 2011 5:16 PM, "Greek Ordono" <[email protected]> wrote: > > For Solaris 8/9/10 requires restart and Redhat/Linux reload/SIGHUP works:P > > -- > Greek Ordono > vmlinuz|genunix|vmkernel admin > myppa: launchpad.net/~grexk/+archive/ppa > > > ________________________________ > From: philip morales <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Thursday, July 7, 2011 4:22:42 PM > Subject: [plug] NTP alias migration > > im into migrating very old ntp servers by migrating their aliases into the > new >ntp servers. ntp.conf of the clients just points to aliases > let say > server ntp1 > server ntp2 > server ntp3 > Im simulating how long will it take for the clients to pickup the new ntp >servers hostname but my tests using solaris 10 an rhel 5.6. show clients are >still pointing to old ntp servers even if I have migrated aliases but nslookup >is ok on all clients. > > But when I restarted ntpd on the client of course they immediately showed the >correct new ntp servers. > > But its not a good idea to restart ntpd on clients across the fleet. Is there > a >way to make clients discover new ntp servers without restarting their deamon? > > Thanks! > > _________________________________________________ > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
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