In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Unruh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Joseph Gwinn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> >In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> > "Peter J. Cherny" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >> Joseph Gwinn wrote:
> >> >...
> >> > Which brings me to a question: How does one get NTP to tell you exactly
> >> > where it is getting such things as the ntp.conf file from, all without
> >> >...
> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ strings /usr/sbin/ntpd|grep ntp.conf
> >> /etc/ntp.conf
>
> >In the RHEL case, this would find exactly the wrong copy of ntp.conf,
> >being the one we were changing to no avail, not the one that NTP was in
> >fact using.
>
> Which one was ntp in fact using?
Don't know yet. Other than it wasn't the obvious one.
When we do figure it out, all pretenders to the throne will be summarily
deleted, to prevent confusion.
> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ strace -f -o x /usr/sbin/ntpd -g
>
> >I'll have to look into this. It sounds like it might be general enough.
>
> >
> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# grep ntp.conf x
> >> 3351 open("/etc/ntp.conf", O_RDONLY) = 4
>
> >Doesn't this assume that the correct "ntp.conf" file is called ntp.conf?
> >It may be common, the standard convention, but it is not required.
>
> >The whole point is to find the correct file without making assumptions,
> >because on a strange computer strange things may have been done.
>
> yes, but then do strace as above and look through the file looking for
> something that might be a configuration file. If they call it /lib/libc.so
> then you are probably shit out of luck, but usually they will not do that.
The strace gave a lot of data, mostly irrelevant, which I will plow
through next week.
Joe Gwinn
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