Chuck Swiger wrote:
Hi, Kevin--
On Mar 13, 2007, at 1:14 PM, Kevin Kinsey wrote:
ntpd won't continue running on my "stratum 2" server (making our other
systems a tad untrustworthy "as time goes by").
$ uname -a
FreeBSD ezekiel.daleco.biz 6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE #5: Sat Jan
20 16:41:42 CST 2007
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386
using ktrace and kdump I get this prior to exit:
[ ... ]
The logging paths seen in the ktrace are rather non-standard-- perhaps
ntpd doesn't have the right permissions to write to them? Normally,
ntpd logs to the NTP facility and critical messages might appear in
/var/log/messages, so additional clues are probably there.
The ktrace is on "ntpd -C /etc/ntp.conf -l $HOME/ntp.log" --- I'd seen
nothing at all in /var/log/messages (was running tail on it while
restarting it several times), so I pointed it there. The full ktrace is
rather long, any point to posting it? It did complain about some
missing files, but seemed to accept others and go on. Here's most of
the complaints in snippage form....
<snip>
12195 ktrace NAMI "/sbin/ntpd"
12195 ktrace RET execve -1 errno 2 No such file or directory
12195 ktrace CALL execve(0xbfbfe710,0xbfbfec5c,0xbfbfec74)
12195 ktrace NAMI "/bin/ntpd"
12195 ktrace RET execve -1 errno 2 No such file or directory
<snip>
12195 ntpd CALL open(0x280a2c48,0,0x1b6)
12195 ntpd NAMI "/etc/libmap.conf"
12195 ntpd RET open -1 errno 2 No such file or directory
<snip>
12195 ntpd NAMI "/etc/malloc.conf"
12195 ntpd RET readlink -1 errno 2 No such file or directory
These don't seem to be related, but IANAE ;-)
Grepping "ntp" in /etc/syslog.conf returns nada, so that would explain
why there's nothing there. I did get "status 2040" in $HOME/ntp.log, so
I'm guessing bad driftfile was the issue?
Showing your ntp.conf file would also help, but if you'd like to see an
example of a working stratum-2 conf file which has been in use for quite
some time:
Nice, ty. Mine's simple:
$ cat /etc/ntp.conf
server time.nist.gov
server navobs1.wustl.edu
driftfile /var/ntpd.drift
I've got it running fine now in FG (-n) option, and the slaves are happy
ATM. I guess I could give it a "&" ;-)
It did complain that sanity limit was exceeded after I started it with
-n, which would explain this, maybe? However, it was exiting prior to
any mention of this previously, and I was *quite certain* that this box
did the DST thing just fine, aside from sendmail logging behind as
discussed in a thread on questions.
If it's noise, I apologize. Buildworld should finish soon, and I'll
monkey around with the driftfile meantime; we'll see if the issue
persists. Oh, and edit syslog.conf and HUP.
But, it'd been working fine for ages without all that. Either way,
thanks for the reply!
Kevin Kinsey
--
Function reject.
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