Saturday, September 8, 2007, 12:37:01 PM, you wrote: > And that fairly screams that its an selinux problem, one that setting it to > permissive mode does NOT fix in my experience. I disabled selinux already during the installation. > Append to the end of the kernel arguments line in your grub.conf, 'selinux=0' > without the quotes and reboot. If that fixes it, throw it back at the > selinux mailing list where Stephen Smalley hangs out. Hmmm... Although I disabled selinux, I didn't have 'selinux=0' in my grub.conf. Probably it gets disabled somewhere else. Anyway, I added this parameter and rebooted the system. Still no changes in ntpd behavior. Sep 8 12:56:10 frontend_light ntpdate[1943]: step time server 66.187.233.4 offset -65.237699 sec Sep 8 12:56:10 frontend_light ntpd[1945]: ntpd 4.2.4p2@xxxxxxxx Tue Aug 21 14:07:56 UTC 2007 (1) Sep 8 12:56:10 frontend_light ntpd[1946]: precision = 1.000 usec Sep 8 12:56:10 frontend_light ntpd[1946]: Listening on interface #0 wildcard, 0.0.0.0#123 Disabled Sep 8 12:56:10 frontend_light ntpd[1946]: Listening on interface #1 wildcard, ::#123 Disabled Sep 8 12:56:10 frontend_light ntpd[1946]: Listening on interface #2 lo, ::1#123 Enabled Sep 8 12:56:10 frontend_light ntpd[1946]: Listening on interface #3 eth0, fe80::230:5ff:fe22:857#123 Enabled Sep 8 12:56:10 frontend_light ntpd[1946]: Listening on interface #4 lo, 127.0.0.1#123 Enabled Sep 8 12:56:10 frontend_light ntpd[1946]: Listening on interface #5 eth0, 172.23.0.133#123 Enabled Sep 8 12:56:10 frontend_light ntpd[1946]: kernel time sync status 0040 Sep 8 12:56:11 frontend_light ntpd[1946]: frequency initialized 0.000 PPM from /var/lib/ntp/drift On my Fedora 6 machine ntpd is working fine: 6 Sep 23:13:05 ntpd[2770]: synchronized to 128.10.252.10, stratum 2 7 Sep 03:20:43 ntpd[2770]: synchronized to 130.89.164.77, stratum 2 7 Sep 04:46:10 ntpd[2770]: synchronized to 128.10.252.10, stratum 2 7 Sep 06:47:57 ntpd[2770]: synchronized to 130.89.164.77, stratum 2 7 Sep 07:53:58 ntpd[2770]: synchronized to 128.10.252.10, stratum 2 [root@frontend_light ~]# ntpq -p remote refid st t when poll reach delay offset jitter ============================================================================== balthazar.tihld 192.36.144.22 2 u 15 64 377 41.875 -3341.6 1648.40 bbs.csie.ncyu.e 220.130.158.71 3 u 13 64 377 364.927 -3354.8 1646.82 hobbes.macvaerk 193.162.142.71 3 u 14 64 377 128.439 -3332.9 1608.39 [root@frontend_light ~]# ntpstat unsynchronised time server re-starting polling server every 64 s [root@frontend_light ~]# -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list