Related to my long dialog about ntpdate, I found two types of entries in syslog: Those caused by a script related to if_up: Dec 1 10:30:05 R2D4 ntpdate[3316]: step time server 74.207.251.121 offset 0.407052 sec
And those of an unknown cause: Dec 1 12:00:21 R2D4 ntpdate[6823]: step-systime: Operation not permitted The first type is the default invocation in ubuntu. It invariably reports an offset of in the order of .5 seconds. Yet when I run the command from a terminal the offset is near zero. This seems strange. One possibility is that ubuntu does not set the hardware clock to the system clock on exit. How can I explore this? About the second type, I am trying to find what precipitates it. What does it mean? I have searched for files in /etc containing the text ntpdate, but have come up with nothing which seems to execute ntpdate except /etc/network/if-up.d/ntpdate. I thought that the noon time was significant, but an identical entry appeared at around 1829. Ideas on how to crack this nut? -Denis _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
