In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Unruh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> David Woolley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >James Cloos wrote: > > >> I read through most of the replies so far, but one thing I haven't seen > >> noted is that this isn't an ntp issue at al > > >Did you mean service (8). > > >Treating it as a black box is basically how Red Hat is marketed; it is > >basically in the same market as Windows. People who want a white box > >Linux are more likely to choose something like Slackware. Agree. > service is a dead simple program. It runs its argument from the /etc/init.d > directory. > > Anyway, long ago we suggested that he looked in /etc/init.d/ntpd to see if > there was anything in there that suggested which config file was being > used. I found the script, and started reading it, and will return to it. > Or insert an echo "...." > where ... is the exact line that that script runs to start ntpd to see if > there are any interesting arguments to ntpd. > > Or put in an "env" in there to see exactly what the environment is that > ntpd sees. All good ideas. Direct, and free of excess assumptions that things are as things should be. > It is just a damn shell script. It is not a black box. I've been reading it, and it does seem simple, but haven't really studied it yet. > >I think the OP has gone far beyond what the average RHEL administrator > >is expected to do in terms of looking inside the box. That's for sure, and is why I'm doing the debugging, even though I'm not a sysadmin. The sysadmins really don't understand NTP. > I find it extremely unlikely that RHEL uses anything but /etc/ntpd.conf but > if it does then it is up to Redhat to document it. I suspect either user > error or some admin in the past of this organization has changed things and > never documented it. Judging by the cruft accumulation in the trojan ntp.conf file, this is not a virgin install, so I'd bet on confused sysadmins. They may have been trying to get it to work, not realizing that this ntp.conf file is only a placebo. > We have not had a report back from him as to what the > results were of all the suggestions we made. Because there is nothing to report yet, due to the press of other business. Joe Gwinn _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
