Re: [CentOS] NTP

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On Wed, 2006-05-24 at 13:26 -0400, Sam Drinkard wrote:
> Robert wrote:
> 
> > Sam Drinkard wrote:
> >
> > <snip>
> >
> >> Will,
> >>
> >>    Everything has worked correctly in the past, and I have not made 
> >> any changes to the config files, nor dns, which is not a caching 
> >> server.  A little bit more info.. somehow, the machine on which I'm 
> >> having this issue is i386, where the machine here at home is x86-64.  
> >> It works as advertized.  I copied all the config files over and 
> >> deleted the first entry from the hosts, which on the local machine 
> >> pointed to the remote machine.  Other than that, they both are 
> >> identical now.  If, when executing either command, I enter "host 
> >> vortex.wa4phy.net" then I get normal behavior.  Somehow, it is not 
> >> setting the default host, or a default host.  I'm totally at a loss 
> >> to explain unless there are some diffs between the two arch's.
> >>
> >> Sam
> >>
> >>>  
> >>>
> > Sam, just for grins, why don't you try replacing host names with IP 
> > addresses in your /etc/ntp.conf  (after copying the original somewhere 
> > safe!), issue a
> > #service ntpd restart
> > and see what that does.  Another thought:  If you have a single-core 
> > processor accidentally running an smp kernel, ntpd will never 
> > stabilize.  At least, that's the way it works on this AMD Athlon I'm 
> > using right now.
> >
> Will,
> 
>     I reverted back to the original configuration, and in the process, 
> looked at the system-config-services.  I'm seeing with the ntpd service 
> stopped, but the subsys is locked.

Folks often forget this

ls /var/lock/subsys

should have an ntpd file.

> There was a pid file, but removed 
> it.  I can try ip's but they recommend using hostnames for most places 
> due to the fact that IP's might change (a lot of the gov't servers are 
> like that).  I'm still dorking around trying to find what is exactly 
> locked -- what subsys ?  Anyhow, the machine does not run the smp 
> kernel, but the machine here IS smp and runs the smp kernel.  I'm just 
> baffled why with identical config files, I still get the service not 
> known message.  Weird......
> 
> Sam
> 
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