[lug] Time sync w/xntp

[Dan Ferris]

Been there done that :-)


Gary Hodges wrote:

> Dan Ferris wrote:
>
>> Did you restart ntpd? 
>
>
> Of course I didn't.  Thanks.  The ntp log looks much nicer now.
>
> Gary
>
>>
>>
>> Gary Hodges wrote:
>>
>>> I'm having some trouble with xntpd.  I'm getting the following 
>>> errors in /var/log/ntp
>>>
>>> 25 Nov 13:28:17 ntpd[28079]: can't open 
>>> /var/lib/ntp/drift/ntp.drift.TEMP: No such file or directory
>>>
>>> In the /etc/ntp.conf file I have the following line
>>>
>>> driftfile /var/lib/ntp/drift/ntp.drift  # path for drift file
>>>
>>> While googling I saw a note that indicated I should touch the 
>>> driftfile first.  I did that and then I also touched ntp.drift.TEMP 
>>> as well, but I still get those errors.
>>>
>>> moon1:/var/lib/ntp/drift # ls -l
>>> total 0
>>> drwxr-xr-x    2 ntp      nogroup       112 2003-11-25 09:43 .
>>> drwxr-xr-x    5 root     root          120 2003-11-18 11:55 ..
>>> -rw-r--r--    1 ntp      nogroup         0 2003-11-25 09:20 ntp.drift
>>> -rw-r--r--    1 ntp      nogroup         0 2003-11-25 09:43 
>>> ntp.drift.TEMP
>>>
>>> I just tried changing the ownership and group for the two drift 
>>> files from root to what it is above and I get the same results.
>>
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