This is almost certainly incorrect unless you're running a very, very
old RHEL/CentOS release. I believe /var/lib/ntp is the canonical
directory for the drift file in 4.x and 5.x. I doubt ntpd is allowed to
write to /etc/ntp, especially if SELinux is enabled.
Good observation, Paul. That configuration is in fact from an ancient version
of Red Hat which I plan to upgrade this week.
Have you tried shutting down ntpd and relaunching it manually with the
"don't fork and give me lots of debugging output" switches (-n -ddd)
enabled?
Alternatively (or additionally), you might try wrapping ntpd in strace
to see if any system calls are being thwarted.
I learned today that our ISP is blocking UDP traffic. I am going to ask them
to make an exception for port 123 to fix this.
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