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

[Kurt Wall]

On Sun, 2 Jun 2002 15:54:00 -0700 "Kevin O'Gorman" <kevin at kosmanor.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 11:33:54PM -0400, Joel Hammer wrote:
> > How do you start ntp?
> 
> They are started through SYSV init.

Can you hack up the init script to use the "-d " debug option?
Or perhaps just invoke it directly (ntpd -d, that is) until you
get it worked out.

> > Are there error messages somewhere?
> 
> Not that I can tell.

NTP is astonishingly quiet for system daemon. Most of the time,
I like that behavior, but it can be a pita when something isn't
working properly.

Kurt