On Tue, 9 May 2006, Heiko Gerstung wrote:
Hi, Ted:
Ted Gervais wrote:
Well I finally am moving away from netdate and have ntpd installed and
running.
I brought it up using ntpd -g, and hope that is ok.
Also I have no idea that it is doing anthing? How do I know that it is
running.
The drift file has only one entry in it, and that is all zeros..
Is there some way that I can watch what is happening like the way I watch
log files using 'tail -f messages' ??
I have all the logfile stuff turned on so I can read any and all stuff that
is happening and yet while that says a few things I at this point don't
know that it is doing anything with the system time.
I am running linux (slackware 10.2)..
Maybe you can try it with "ntpq -p" which shows you all configured time
references (the "server" or "peer" lines in /etc/ntp.conf). If you want,
you can run it periodically : "watch -n 1 ntpq -p"
OK on the 'watch' line. Here is what that gives me"
Every 1.0s: ntpq -p Tue May 9
12:39:45 2006
remote refid st t when poll reach delay offset
jitter
==============================================================================
*LOCAL(0) 73.78.73.84 5 l 58 64 377 0.000 0.000
0.001
time-b.nist.gov .RSTR. 16 u - 64 0 0.000 0.000
4000.00
time-b.nist.gov .RSTR. 16 u - 64 0 0.000 0.000
4000.00
time-A.timefreq .RSTR. 16 u - 64 0 0.000 0.000
4000.00
time.nist.gov .RSTR. 16 u - 128 0 0.000 0.000
4000.00
As ntpd is normally using the system log, a simple
"tail -f /var/log/messages | grep ntp" would be another approach to
Alright on grepping ntp inthe messages log. Never thought of that in
terms of specifically looking only for ntp activity. I willl make a note
ofthat too..
monitor what is happening, but here you will not see a lot of things
after the initial startup messages.
Kind regards,
Heiko
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