[ale] NTPD issues

[Ryan Fish]

It very well could be dead.  The box is a HP LPr Netserver and is quite
old...


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Patterson" <unixdude at gmail.com>
To: "Ryan Fish" <FishR at bellsouth.net>; "Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts"
<ale at ale.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2005 2:52 PM
Subject: Re: [ale] NTPD issues


> I'll have to to more research to see how to identify why a time source
> would be "reach=yes" and "condition=reject".  But just a
> thought, is it possible your CMOS battery is dead/bad?
> Some of the extreme clock loss problems I have seen in the
> past came from bad batteries.
>
> Jim P.
>
>
> On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 11:19:26 -0500, Ryan Fish <FishR at bellsouth.net> wrote:
> > Right now I have a cron job setup to run rdate against a stratum 2 time
> > server every 30 minutes in an attempt to keep the time at least somewhat
> > close.  Unfortunately, this particular server (HP LPr Netserver) likes
to
> > lose quite a bit of time between these updates.
> >
> > Since I have NTPD running successfully on another box in the same
network
> > could I just point the one that doesn't like to work right at that one?
If
> > so, how?  I have been unsuccessful in finding info on this so far...
> >
> > Thank you.
> > -Ryan
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Ryan Fish" <FishR at bellsouth.net>
> > To: <mhw at wittsend.com>; "Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts" <ale at ale.org>
> > Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2005 11:14 AM
> > Subject: Re: [ale] NTPD issues
> >
> > > RedHat Enterprise Linux ES 3
> > > 2.4.21-27.0.2.ELsmp
> > >
> > > Everything related to NTPD worked fine before I rebooted the server
last
> > > Friday morning to put the new kernel in place.  Of course, I put the
same
> > > NTPD conf, etc. in place on another server in the same network that is
> > > running the same kernel /RHEL version and have no trouble with it...
> > >
> > > Thanks again.
> > > -Ryan
> > >
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Michael H. Warfield" <mhw at wittsend.com>
> > > To: "Ryan Fish" <FishR at bellsouth.net>; "Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts"
> > > <ale at ale.org>
> > > Cc: <mhw at wittsend.com>; "H. A. Story" <adrin at bellsouth.net>
> > > Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2005 7:22 AM
> > > Subject: Re: [ale] NTPD issues
> > >
> > >
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