On Monday 19 September 2005 11:59, Peter J. Holzer wrote: >On 2005-09-19 11:51:59 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: >> On Monday 19 September 2005 11:42, Peter J. Holzer wrote: >> >On 2005-09-19 10:48:34 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: >> >[new version of ntpd] >> > >> >> This latter version does not seem to be writing to >> >> /var/log/ntpd.log at all, so I have no idea what its doing. >> > >> >Have you started it with -l /var/log/ntpd.log? Normally ntpd writes >> > to syslog (and I believe this it has done this for the last 10 years >> > or so). >> >> No, but I didn't have to before. In the init.d/ntpd script, the ntpd >> starter is "daemon ntpd $OPTIONS" but I've NDI where $OPTIONS >> actually gets set. > >It gets set in /etc/sysconfig/ntpd > Ahh, I see. I appended it there, and on a restart, its back to using its own log, many thanks. >On my system it contains > > # Drop root to id 'ntp:ntp' by default. Requires kernel >= 2.2.18. > OPTIONS="-U ntp -p /var/run/ntpd.pid" > >which I believe is the default for FC2 (I certainly can't remember >changing it). AFAIR the default for (x)ntpd on Redhat systems has always >been to log to syslog since Redhat 3.0.3 (before I used Slackware, and I >think it was the same). > > hp -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.35% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved. -- fedora-legacy-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-legacy-list
