On Tuesday 09 May 2006 17:41, Ted Gervais wrote: > 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > > questions mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.ntp.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/questions > > --- > Ted Gervais > Coldbrook, Nova Scotia > Canada. (ve1drg)
Hi Ted. Stratum 16 shows it's unable to sync with the servers. Presuming that those servers are available, it's worth checking that port 123 is open in your firewall. Nigel. > > _______________________________________________ > questions mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ntp.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/questions _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
