Running CentOS 3.4, I enabled the ntpd service and noticed that it
opens up a hole in the firewall for ntp from 127.127.1.0. I look in
the ntpd initscript and see that it's reading in servers from
/etc/ntp/step-tickers. However, that file is empty...
/etc/ntp/ntpservers contains clock.redhat.com and clock2.redhat.com,
but ntpservers isn't used *anywhere*.
This looks like a bug, but maybe I'm overlooking something stupid. I
reviewed the RHEL manuals, but they only reference the GUI utilities
now (grrr).
Any ideas a) where 127.127.1.0 is coming from (parsing bug?), or b) why
the initscript doesn't reference /etc/ntp/ntpservers?
Thanks,
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Jason Dixon
DixonGroup Consulting
http://www.dixongroup.net
