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

[Kevin O'Gorman]

On Sun, Jun 02, 2002 at 07:11:02PM -0400, Kurt Wall wrote:
> 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.

Okay, I did that, and the output does not seem to acknowledge the incoming
request from glynnis.  We see it has arrived by tcpdump, but the log in
/var/log/messages, which contains much cryptic stuff about the hosts
I'm using as time references, does not mention glynnis at all.

Odd.

++ kevin


> 
> > > 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
> 
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