ntpq no longer working -

[Bob Goodwin]

taharka wrote:
> How do,
>
> On Mon, 2006-05-22 at 07:32 -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote:
>   
>> Tim wrote:
>>     
>>> On Mon, 2006-05-22 at 04:17 -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote:
>>>   
>>>       
>>>> server 
>>>> clock2.redhat.com                                                       
>>>> server 
>>>> ntp-1.cns.vt.edu                                                        
>>>> server 
>>>> ntp-2.cns.vt.edu                                                        
>>>> server 
>>>> ntp-3.cns.vt.edu                                                        
>>>> server ntp-4.cns.vt.edu
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> Cut and paste error?  They should all look more like:
>>>
>>> server clock2.redhat.com                                                       
>>> server ntp-1.cns.vt.edu                                                        
>>> server ntp-2.cns.vt.edu                                                        
>>> server ntp-3.cns.vt.edu                                                        
>>> server ntp-4.cns.vt.edu
>>>   
>>>       
>> Yes, that is exactly what it looks like before Mozilla Compose mutilated 
>> them
>> in producing "plain text."
>>     
>>> Those domains all resolve, here.  But I don't think you're doing
>>> yourself any favours by referring to a bunch of NTP servers at the same
>>> location.  You want a collection of different servers, else you might
>>> believe a set of servers to be true, that believe themselves to all be
>>> true, when they're not (they might all be referencing themselves).
>>>   
>>>       
>> Originally I had three different sources within a few hundred miles in
>> hope of minimizing delays, some went away over time and the two left always
>> worked well enough for my purposes.  Your suggestion is obviously valid. 
>> But I still can't see what's happening, since ntpq doesn't work even when I
>> reduce the list to just the Redhat server.
>>     
>>> I picked a collection that come from different locations:
>>>
>>> server 0.pool.ntp.org iburst
>>> server 1.pool.ntp.org iburst
>>> server 2.pool.ntp.org iburst
>>>
>>> Plus a couple of more local ones, to me (au.pool.ntp.org and my ISP's)
>>>       
>> I can do something similar but first need to fix my problem.
>>     
>
> Any hints/errors in /var/log/ntp?
>   
I haven't found any such log, locate *log*ntp* produces nothing I 
recognize as useful?

I did find:  /usr/bin/ntpstat
synchronised to NTP server (198.82.1.203) at stratum 3
   time correct to within 79 ms
   polling server every 512 s

Which seems to indicate ntp is working at least but I don't have the 
convenient data display I am accustomed to.

Bob


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>> Bob
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> taharka
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