On Thursday 08 January 2009, Michael Schwendt wrote: >On Thu, 08 Jan 2009 10:56:17 -0500, Gene wrote: >> On Thursday 08 January 2009, Michael Schwendt wrote: >> >On Thu, 08 Jan 2009 09:53:41 -0500, Gene wrote: >> >> Also, a recent ntp update >> > >> >What "recent ntp update" do you refer to? Give version and release, >> >please. Use details from "rpm -qa --last|grep ntp" and >> >"grep ntp /var/log/yum.log" >> >> Fedora 8, sorry. >> >> [root@coyote etc]# rpm -qa --last|grep ntp >> ntp-4.2.4p4-1.fc8 Tue 18 Nov 2008 11:34:03 AM >> EST [root@coyote etc]# grep ntp /var/log/yum.log >> [root@coyote etc]# > >That's an update from April/May 2008: > > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F8/FEDORA-2008-3170 > >An install date of "18 Nov 2008" suggests that probably you reinstalled >Fedora 8 on that day. Yes, a hard drive failure. >If that is not true, perhaps you removed+installed "ntp" without >switching it on for any run-level. That reinstall was riddled with stuff that should have been put in but wasn't, and I believe I made some comments about such over the next week or so, but ntpd continued to run normally till the last week of Dec 2008. >> >> removed /etc/rc3.d/S58ntpd, >> > >> >It doesn't do that. Only upon unstalling the "ntp" package from your >> >system, it also stops the service and removes the run-level symlinks. >> >> I am sure it was there after the re-install on Nov 18th, and I'm the only >> user, so that leaves the possibility that ext3 has done an ntfs on me, and >> deleted a random file. > >Aha, a re-install on Nov 18th indeed. That matches my theory. There >hasn't been any ntp update for Fedora 8, however. And the package >doesn't touch the run-level scripts. ntp defaults to off and doesn't >remove any symlink until you uninstall the package. You can examine >"rpm -q --scripts ntp" if you like. Hummm, : preinstall scriptlet (using /bin/sh): /usr/sbin/groupadd -g 38 ntp 2> /dev/null || : /usr/sbin/useradd -u 38 -g 38 -s /sbin/nologin -M -r -d /etc/ntp ntp 2>/dev/null || : postinstall scriptlet (using /bin/sh): /sbin/chkconfig --add ntpd : preuninstall scriptlet (using /bin/sh): if [ "$1" -eq 0 ]; then /sbin/service ntpd stop &> /dev/null /sbin/chkconfig --del ntpd fi : postuninstall scriptlet (using /bin/sh): if [ "$1" -ge 1 ]; then /sbin/service ntpd condrestart &> /dev/null fi : Which looks benign on the face of it. ??? >Looks very much as if you're chasing ghosts. That it does, and it doesn't answer to Casper. :) Thanks. -- 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) Every time I look at you I am more convinced of Darwin's theory. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
