More info. I found entries in daemon.log: Nov 30 08:06:04 R2D4 ntpdate[3330]: step time server 69.63.177.217 offset 0.894285 sec ... Nov 30 11:57:14 R2D4 ntpdate[3434]: can't find host http://www.pool.ntp.org/zone/us Nov 30 11:57:14 R2D4 ntpdate[3434]: no servers can be used, exiting
This seems to indicate that ntpdate was run before I made the changes to anacrontab and rebooted. Perhaps I did do it manually, but I do not recall doing that, and I can not find the command in my history. The only conclusion I can get from this is that ntpdate is already being run somewhere. I think I had better remove my changes to anacrontab, reboot, and look at daemon.log again. Also, it seem that http://www.pool.ntp.org/zone/us as suggested by Randall is not working. Did I miss-type? -Denis On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 1:19 PM, Denis Heidtmann <[email protected]> wrote: > Well, progress. I decided to use anacron so that I would not be > updating my clock at each boot. Once per week should be fine. And I > see that anacron is run by default, so all that is needed is to put an > entry in anacrontab: > > # added 11/30/2009 dlh > # period(days) delay(min.) identifier job > 7 0 NTPDATE-DEB > /usr/sbin/ntpdate-debian > > After reboot, syslog contains: > > Nov 30 11:57:14 R2D4 anacron[3551]: Will run job `NTPDATE-DEB' in 0 min. > Nov 30 11:57:14 R2D4 anacron[3551]: Jobs will be executed sequentially > Nov 30 11:57:14 R2D4 anacron[3551]: Job `NTPDATE-DEB' started > Nov 30 11:57:14 R2D4 /usr/sbin/cron[3596]: (CRON) INFO (pidfile fd = 3) > Nov 30 11:57:14 R2D4 /usr/sbin/cron[3597]: (CRON) STARTUP (fork ok) > Nov 30 11:57:14 R2D4 anacron[3551]: Job `NTPDATE-DEB' terminated (exit > status: 1) (mailing output) > Nov 30 11:57:15 R2D4 /usr/sbin/cron[3597]: (CRON) INFO (Running @reboot jobs) > Nov 30 11:57:15 R2D4 anacron[3551]: Normal exit (1 job run) > > I take this to mean that there was a problem (exit status: 1). Yet I > can find nothing in the mail logs. man anacron says the mail will go > to the user (usually root). Is there some mail log which I am not > privy to, due to ubuntu handling of root? I can make an entry in > anacrontab to cause the mail to go wherever I want by assigning it to > the MAILTO variable, but I do not know the format. Is it just a file > name? > > Thanks, > -Denis > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
