Joseph Gwinn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Steve Kostecke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> On 2008-09-03, Joseph Gwinn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > Read the "service" shell script. It appears to get its file paths from >> > environment variables named after the thing being started and stopped >> > and accessible only in the root environment; this bit of RHEL-specific >> > structure is being chased down. (Does anyone know where this is >> > documented?) >> >> On Linux OSes init scripts are typically found in /etc/init.d/ or >> /etc/rc.d/init.d/ Look for one named ntp (or something containing ntp). >Yes, and that's where strace led me, where I found a script called ntpd. >How the service script interacts with this ntpd script isn't clear. >Environment variables seem to be implicated, but a listing of >environment variables is not helpful. Next week I'll digest it all. service simply runs the program listed as its argument from the /etc/init.d directory. Ie, service ntpd start is the same as /etc/init.d/ntpd start > >> > 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 >> > being able to find or see the actual command line or lines that launched >> > the daemon? I did not see a ntpq command that sounded plausible, >> > although ntpq would be an obvious choice. >> > >> > This would be very useful for debugging, as each and every platform type >> > seems to have a different approach to handling NTP. >> >> Why not use the file location features built in to your OS to find all >> possible instances of ntp.conf? >> >> $ locate ntp.conf >> >> or >> >> $ find / -name ntp.conf >> >> Pipe the output of either of those commands to 'xargs ls -l' to see the >> datestamps of the files. >We did this, but could not tell which one mattered. Next week. >Nor is it *required* the the ntp configuration file be called ntp.config. >Joe Gwinn _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
