ntpd Question
Greetings: I need some help to set the ntpd service to syncronize my server date & time with a public time server. I have already installed & run the ntpd service, configuring the public server address in the /etc/ntp.conf file. The problem is that the ntpd service seems NOT to be affecting the local server time at all. Aside from the public timer server name configuration in ntp.conf, Do I have to set anything else? TIA, -- Carlos A. Siso -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
Re: ntpd Question
Hi John: Thank you for your answer. Tried the restrict directive but still ntpd does not affect the machine time. To test it, I stop the ntpd service, set an invalid time in the machine and start the ntpd service again. The machine keeps the invalid time. I am able to sync the machine time using the "Time Server" option of the "time&date" module in "Webmin". So the problem is not the network, firewall or remote server. It seems I will have to spend the rest of the week reading the (extensive) ntp documentation :-(. El Mar 25 Feb 2003 21:33, John Kodis escribió: > On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 06:52:26PM -0400, Carlos A. Siso wrote: > > I have already installed & run the ntpd service, configuring the > > public server address in the /etc/ntp.conf file. The problem is that > > the ntpd service seems NOT to be affecting the local server time at > > all. > > I'd guess that you need to add a "restrict" directive, something > like: > > restrict 17.254.0.31 mask 255.255.255.255 nomodify notrap noquery > > ... except with the IP address changed to match the address of the > server that you're using. > > -- > John KodisGoddard Space Flight Center > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Greenbelt, Maryland, USA > Phone: 301-286-7376 Fax: 301-286-1771 -- Carlos A. Siso -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
Re: ntpd Question
Hi Piero: That's do it!. I checked the ntp doc's about this file and found nothing. In further check I find that this file is parsed to get servers names to pass to "ntpdate" (to sync dates) on the "/etc/init.d/ntpd" script (at service start) and by default the file is empty. One interesting thing is that if this file is missing (not empty), the "etc/init.d/ntpd start" script will add the option -g to ntpd parameters. This is supposed to force ntpd to set the system clock at startup (once) in case of any differences and should be the preferred way because ntpdate is to be retired (the ntpd docs says so...). The problem is that it seems the "-g" options is not working properly. I stopped the ntdp service, removed the step-tickers file, set an invalid date/time and started the ntpd service again. The date was not affected!. Anyway, I will stick with the step-tickers file and ntpdate as they are. Thanks for your help! El Jue 27 Feb 2003 03:14, Piero Calucci escribió: > On Wed, 2003-02-26 at 15:26, Carlos A. Siso wrote: > > Hi John: > > > > Thank you for your answer. Tried the restrict directive but still ntpd > > does not affect the machine time. To test it, I stop the ntpd service, > > set an invalid time in the machine and start the ntpd service again. The > > machine keeps the invalid time. > > > > I am able to sync the machine time using the "Time Server" option of the > > "time&date" module in "Webmin". So the problem is not the network, > > firewall or remote server. > > > > It seems I will have to spend the rest of the week reading the > > (extensive) ntp documentation :-(. > > do you have a /etc/ntp/step-tickers file? > > It should contain a list of time servers to query at ntp startup to sync > the clock even if the difference is above the "regular" ntp threshold > > Piero -- Carlos A. Siso -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
Strange situation on /etc/profile
Greetings: I have a very simple firewall machine running RH 7.3 + Monmotha firewall. The only way to login this machine is by ssh and this is restricted to the internal lan. Only open port is SMTP for incoming mail. Suddenly, each time I log on via ssh I received the following message: bash: /etc/profile: line 44: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `"' bash: /etc/profile: line 50: syntax error: unexpected end of file I checked the /etc/profile file and founded that the line 30 has been changed from: USER="`id -un`" to USER=b`id -un`" The file last modification date is "Mar 11 2002" (Firewall installation date). Aside from this, I have been unable to detect any other change to this file or to others firewall's files. There are no unexpected task running, xinetd is not installed and the firewall script is OK. Overall, the firewall is operating as expected. This seems to me like the hard disk is having problems, but while I have seen corrupted files before (on other systems with nearly dead hard disks), what amuse me is the only one byte corruption. Is this possible?? Normally I will take this like a hard disk problem, but because this machine is the firewall, I have some security concern. Could it be that someone is tampering the firewall? Has anybody seen something like this? TIA, -- Carlos A. Siso -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
Re: Strange situation on /etc/profile
El Dom 02 Mar 2003 06:55, Michael Kuss escribió: > On Sun, 2 Mar 2003, Carlos A. Siso wrote: > > I checked the /etc/profile file and founded that the line 30 has been > > changed from: > > > > USER="`id -un`" > > to > > USER=b`id -un`" > > > > The file last modification date is "Mar 11 2002" (Firewall installation > > date). Aside from this, I have been unable to detect any other change to > > this file or to others firewall's files. There are no unexpected task > > running, xinetd is not installed and the firewall script is OK. Overall, > > the firewall is operating as expected. > > > > This seems to me like the hard disk is having problems, but while I have > > seen corrupted files before (on other systems with nearly dead hard > > disks), what amuse me is the only one byte corruption. Is this possible?? > > > > Normally I will take this like a hard disk problem, but because this > > machine is the firewall, I have some security concern. Could it be that > > someone is tampering the firewall? Has anybody seen something like this? > > yepp, and in my case it was the memory. I recommend running memtest86. > Also note, " \042 and b \142 just differ by one bit. > > Cheers, > > Michael Thanks. It seems more like a memory problem. I will make some hardware test test on this machine... -- Carlos A. Siso -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
doc to pdf command line filter
Greetings: Is there any filter available that allows me convert a MS word document to pdf on a command line? Actually I do it manually with Open Office Writer but I have not found any info about using it from the command line. TIA -- Carlos A. Siso -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
Re: doc to pdf command line filter
I take a look at doc2pdf. Basically, it requires a windows server to do the conversion. Communication is handled using the pop3 mail protocol. Thanks anyway. El Mar 04 Mar 2003 12:30, Renato Salles escribió: > Take a look at: > freshmeat.net/projects/doc2pdf/ > > Best regards, > > RSalles > > On Tue, 2003-03-04 at 13:22, Carlos A. Siso wrote: > > Is there any filter available that allows me convert a MS word document > > to pdf on a command line? > > > > Actually I do it manually with Open Office Writer but I have not found > > any info about using it from the command line. > > > > TIA > > -- > > Carlos A. Siso > > -- > Renato Salles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > RSNET -- Carlos A. Siso Gerente General Hyper Sistemas s.a. http://www.hypersistemas.com -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
