[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Murray) writes:
>>I did get a look at the ntpd script today. Turns out the answer on >>where it gets the ntp.conf file is right there, near the top, in the >>line "ntpconf=/etc/ntp.conf", even though the ntp man page points us >>deeper in the /etc hierarchy. I really do not understand this. /etc/ntp.conf is the standard location. I thought that was the one you said was NOT being used. >>The sysadmin I was working with was real annoyed, as the misinformation >>in the man page had sent him into circles. We will add pointer comments >>to all placebo ntp.conf files, to save future generations of sysadmins >>from this fate. >I still don't know which ntp.conf you are really using. >I'm looking at a Fedora 6 box. >If you look in /etc/init.d/ntpd, you will see that it mucks about >with ntpconf (the one above) to find the servers. Those servers >get passed to ntpdate. Mumble. That's old crap. There is now >a command line switch that does the right thing. I don't see >where ntpconf gets passed to ntpd as a command line argument. >If the man page says ntpd uses some other config file, it >is probably right, or at it seems to me that it would be >more likely that the guy who changed the code also changed >the man page but didn't fixup the init script. They still have not done what was suggested, namely find out exactly what command is being run by the script-- with all its arguments. It seems they have a habit of jumping off half cocked at any hint that comes their way. _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
