ntpd -U ntp -g
William Hooper
whooperhsd3 at earthlink.net
Fri Jun 4 12:28:23 UTC 2004
Al Sparks said:
> I'm looking through the ntpd docs, and can't find a reference to
> -U
> in the ntpd man pages. It's something that fedora uses in its default
> setup:
> ntpd -U ntp -g
>
> That's what I see when I do a ps -a
man ntpd
[...]
-U server_user Ntpd process drops root privileges and changes user
ID to server_user and group ID to the primary group of
server_user.
[...]
> Now actually, I'm running an ntpd on a server that's supposed to be
> accepting time requests.
>
> Yet, when I send a
> ntpdate
> to that server, I get
> ntpdate[25004]: no server suitable for synchronization found
>
> If you setup your client server with a /etc/ntp/step-tickers file it
> runs ntpdate on startup, and then depends on ntpd to keep the server's
> time straight.
Is your ntpd server synced? Use "ntpq" to check the status of the servers
you are looking at.
Do you have a firewall in the way? Use "service iptables status" to look
at the firewall rules.
--
William Hooper
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