Sounds like rather than looking at logs you want a monitoring tool. I would then suggest you look at nagios (www.nagios.org) or bigbrother. Both have plugins or modules to check if ntp is running . Atif Malik On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 16:26, Bret Hughes wrote: > On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 11:14, Genti Hila wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I have an Linux Box that acts as an NTP (network time protocol) server and i would like to sent the critical logs, especially if the ntpd daemon stops. > > > > Can anybody give some directions on that ? > > > > Any idea is appreciated > > > > Genti > > this is the only issue I have with ntpd: > > If the daemon stops or in one case I had a smp machine that would skew > the time faster than ntp would keepup with it so I created a script taht > would check all the machines listed in a file and do some ugly hacks to > figure out if the box was synced or not. I run it via cron > periodically: > > I will put the script at > > http://www.elevating.com/bret/checktime.pl > > browser readable : > http://www.elevating.com/bret/checktime.pl.txt > > if you are interested. > > I have been playing with a better way to do this using ntpdc. For > instance > > ntpdc -c sysinfo |awk '/stratum/ {print $2}' > > > will print the stratum that the peer of the machine is running at. On > my machines if it is synced it usually prints 2 or 3 depending on the > server it is synced to. If a box is not synced it prints 11 since that > is the stratum I set the local fudge to. At least I think that is > right. > > HTH > > Bret > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
