Configure NTP - should be a snap, but it isn't

[Kevin O'Gorman]

On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 11:33:54PM -0400, Joel Hammer wrote:
> How do you start ntp?

They are started through SYSV init.

> Are there error messages somewhere?

Not that I can tell.

> Joel
> On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 05:26:36PM -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> > I configure NTP once every several years, so I cannot usually
> > remember what's what.
> > 
> > I've got a server that's been running NTP happily for years,
> > seems to stay current, and I'm not going to mess with it.
> > 
> > I've got another machine, glynnis, running RH7.1, and it has the NTP
> > software, but I cannot get it to synchronize with my server.
> > I've looked at my firewall rules, and it seems I have all traffic
> > allowed between these machines, on local-only subnet: 192.168.1.0/24.
> > 
> > NTP comes up on glynnis okay, but whenever I run 'ntpq -p' I get
> > this, which tells me btrixie isn't being used, and that the
> > local clock is being taken as the time source:  (btrixie is an
> > entry in my /etc/hosts file, equated to 192.168.1.148)
> > 
> > [root at glynnis init.d]# ntpq -p
> >      remote           refid      st t when poll reach   delay   offset  jitter
> > ==============================================================================
> >  btrixie         0.0.0.0         16 u    -   64    0    0.000    0.000 4000.00
> >  LOCAL(0)        LOCAL(0)        10 u    -   64    0    0.000    0.000 4000.00
> > 
> > *********
> > 
> > My configuration file is very simple.
> > 
> > > server 192.168.1.148
> > >  
> > > server  127.127.1.0     # local clock
> > > fudge   127.127.1.0 stratum 10
> > >  
> > > driftfile /etc/ntp/drift
> > > multicastclient                 # listen on default 224.0.1.1
> > > broadcastdelay  0.008
> > >  
> > > authenticate no
> > 
> > 
> > Anybody have a clue?
> > 
> > ++ kevin

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