>>
>> which logfile? ntp retires each log file, renaming it with the current
>> date-- at the end of each day UTC as I understand. Thus
>> -rw-r--r--  2 ntp  ntp    3140 2013-12-07 15:49 loopstats
>> -rw-r--r--  1 ntp  ntp   12729 2013-12-03 15:55 loopstats.20131203
>> -rw-r--r--  1 ntp  ntp   11560 2013-12-04 15:57 loopstats.20131204
>> -rw-r--r--  1 ntp  ntp    4192 2013-12-05 15:36 loopstats.20131205
>> -rw-r--r--  1 ntp  ntp    8637 2013-12-06 15:54 loopstats.20131206
>> -rw-r--r--  2 ntp  ntp    3140 2013-12-07 15:49 loopstats.20131207
>>
>> I do not know how you are reading the files to see if it not populating
>> them?
>
> Those files are normally referred to as stats rather than logs.
>
> The ntp.log file contents depends on logging options, normally set at the
> very top of ntp.conf to:
>
>      # Log everything
>      logconfig =allall


Here is my configuration file

 server 158.43.128.66 iburst
    server 81.168.77.149 iburst
    server 130.88.200.4 iburst
    restrict 127.0.0.1
    restrict 130.1.1.1 mask 255.255.255.0 nomodify
    tos orphan 4
    driftfile /status/etc/ntp/ntp.drift
    logfile /var/log/ntp.log
    multicastclient
    broadcastdelay 0.008
    enable monitor

I'm talking about ntp.log. Here is the current log file


xxxxxxxx-1:/var/log# cat ntp.log
 2 Dec 22:26:29 ntpd[25895]: synchronized to 130.88.200.4, stratum 2
 2 Dec 22:31:37 ntpd[25895]: synchronized to 158.43.128.66, stratum 2
 2 Dec 22:42:21 ntpd[25895]: synchronized to 130.88.200.4, stratum 2
 3 Dec 00:15:51 ntpd[25895]: synchronized to 158.43.128.66, stratum 2
 3 Dec 03:16:09 ntpd[25895]: synchronized to 130.88.200.4, stratum 2
 3 Dec 03:20:27 ntpd[25895]: synchronized to 158.43.128.66, stratum 2
 3 Dec 05:53:13 ntpd[25895]: synchronized to 130.88.200.4, stratum 2
 3 Dec 05:56:30 ntpd[25895]: synchronized to 158.43.128.66, stratum 2
 3 Dec 11:12:27 ntpd[25895]: synchronized to 130.88.200.4, stratum 2
 3 Dec 11:22:09 ntpd[25895]: synchronized to 158.43.128.66, stratum 2
 3 Dec 11:31:13 ntpd[25895]: synchronized to 130.88.200.4, stratum 2
 3 Dec 11:44:42 ntpd[25895]: synchronized to 158.43.128.66, stratum 2
 3 Dec 11:52:47 ntpd[25895]: synchronized to 130.88.200.4, stratum 2
 3 Dec 11:56:40 ntpd[25895]: synchronized to 158.43.128.66, stratum 2
 3 Dec 12:08:55 ntpd[25895]: synchronized to 130.88.200.4, stratum 2
 3 Dec 12:31:23 ntpd[25895]: synchronized to 158.43.128.66, stratum 2
 3 Dec 12:43:10 ntpd[25895]: synchronized to 130.88.200.4, stratum 2
 3 Dec 12:51:47 ntpd[25895]: synchronized to 158.43.128.66, stratum 2
 3 Dec 13:11:10 ntpd[25895]: synchronized to 130.88.200.4, stratum 2
 3 Dec 13:21:47 ntpd[25895]: synchronized to 158.43.128.66, stratum 2
 3 Dec 14:03:46 ntpd[25895]: synchronized to 130.88.200.4, stratum 2
 3 Dec 14:10:14 ntpd[25895]: synchronized to 158.43.128.66, stratum 2
 4 Dec 02:56:10 ntpd[25895]: no servers reachable
 4 Dec 02:59:22 ntpd[25895]: synchronized to 158.43.128.66, stratum 2
xxxxxxxx-1:/var/log#

It stopped reporting 4 days ago. clock is still synchronised.
I cannot update to latest version yet.

I haven't tried rebooting the whole system yet.

Thanks

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