Re: NTP Problem

["John Salamone" <vze2fc3k verizon net>]

Brett,

Do you know if SWAT comes with samba when you download it from samba.org?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bret Hughes" <bhughes elevating com>
To: <redhat-list redhat com>
Sent: Saturday, February 01, 2003 5:12 PM
Subject: Re: NTP Problem


> On Sat, 2003-02-01 at 14:00, Todd A. Jacobs wrote:
> > On Sat, 1 Feb 2003, Bret Hughes wrote:
> >
> > > I don;t have an 8.0 machine to look at.  Has redhat modified network
> > > startup scripts to slurp ntp servers from dhcp information?
> >
> > Yup. And the default configuration is now to ignore everything except
> > localhost, so every time dhclient runs, it picks up the NTP servers from
> > DHCP, then promptly ignores them. If you change ntp.conf but not
> > dhclient.conf, then your ntp.conf will be overwritten whenever your DHCP
> > lease is renewed.
> >
> > Basically, all my patch does is change "default ignore" to "default
> > nomodify," which is functional but safe.
> >
>
> I hope you submitted the patch to bugzilla.  This is pretty cool
> functionality if they can get it right.  Does dhclient also place the
> ntpserver(s?) into /etc/ntp/step-tickers so that when ntp is started via
> the normal redhat init.d/ntpd script there will be something to run
> ntpdate against?
>
> This the beginnings of having enough reasons to look at upgrading. to
> 8.x.  I have 42 machines in the field that are on three different
> networks served by dhcp and ntpd from the gateway and it is one of the
> things someone is apt to forget when a machine is replaced.  It does not
> happen often, but often enough that I wrote a script that runs ntpq -p
> on each of them periodically from our central office to make sure they
> are in sync.
>
> Bret
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