ntpq no longer working -

[Bob Goodwin]

Tim wrote:
> taharka:
>   
>>> Any hints/errors in /var/log/ntp?
>>>       
>    
>
> Bob Goodwin
>   
>> I haven't found any such log, locate *log*ntp* produces nothing I 
>> recognize as useful?
>>     
>
> I think you have to reconfigure NTP to use its own log if you want to
> that, else you just get some basic details logged in /var/log/messages.
>
>
>   
>> 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.
>>     
>
> It seems peculiar to your machine, not FC5 in general, I just got a
> friend with FC5 and ntp-4.2.0.a.20050816-11 to send me the output of
> "/usr/sbin/ntpq -p", and he got normal results:
>
> remote               refid    st t when poll reach delay offset  jitter
> ==============================================================================
> *kuglof.mostovna .GPS.         1 u  519 1024 277 390.239 -77.177 11.863
> +isdn-111.uninet 194.204.30.15 2 u  323 1024 377 402.333 -36.140 2.092
> +cheddar.halon.o 195.234.188.3 2 u   74 1024 377 342.345 -30.247 0.864
>
>   
Yes, that is the sort of data I normally see.


> I suppose there's a few things that could be throwing a spanner in the
> works (SELinux, DNS resolution, network routing).
>
>   
Selinux is off, I have used numerical addresses, network routing?

> Something that I've seen mentioned regarding other problems, at least,
> is NTP running more than once.  I don't know how or why that happens,
> but I've seen it happen here, and odd things happen because of it
Ed Greshko asked -
service ntpd status
ntpd (pid 18799) is running...

I forgot to provide that in the last message.