Define crashing? This looks more like problems with yout TZ variables than ntpd.
try "ntpq -p" to check if its actually running/locked. If ntpd is freewheeling, it is prpbably because your time is too far from lock so it will silently fail (default config). If ntpd has really crashed (ps aux will confirm), try running the daemon manually from a console - if it "segfaults" or comes up with a missing library, try "ldd /usr/sbin/ntpd" to find which lib is needed and fix. BillK -----Original Message----- From: Jeff Cranmer <j...@lotussevencars.com> Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] ntpd crashing Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2012 16:25:39 -0500 Hi, Can anyone give me any pointers as to how to diagnose a problem with ntpd crashing. My time keeps defaulting to 5 hours earlier than it should. There's nothing in dmesg when I do dmesg | grep time, or dmesg | grep ntp, but /etc/init.d/ntpd status tells me that ntpd has crashed. Jeff
