Chris wrote at 12-FEB-2007 18:12:06.46
On 2/12/07, Jacob (=Jouk) Jansen <joukj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> I have a problem with NTP on a FC6 machine connected to a adsl connection.
>> When starting up the machine it tells me it fails to synch with the server
>> (it started doing this one or two months ago) after that is sais that ntpd
>> is started succesfully. I doubt this because I start noticing slight (1/2
>> minute) time differences with other machines.
>> First I thought it was a firewall problem, but this weekend I connetcted on
>> the same network connection another FC6 machine, with the same
>> Firewall/Selinux and NTP settings. This machine did not give the error.
>> The only difference between the machines is the actual hardware and on
>> machine 1 more FC6 packages are installed.
>>
>> Where do/can I look to solve this problem?
>>
>
>First try "service ntp restart" from a running system. If that fails,
No problem doing thsi on the running system
>chances are you have a faulty step tickers file. If it works, make
>sure that DNS is available when ntp is started at boot time or that
>/etc/ntp/step.tickers uses ip addresses instead of hostnames.
Changing to ip numbers in the /etc/ntp/step.tickers to make the match
exactly to the machine that works did not have any effect. Still I get the
error at boot-time. I'm sure the network is acctivated before starting ntp.
Any other ideas?
Jouk
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