RE: setting up NTPd

["James D. Parra" <JamesP MusicReports com>]

Hello Jeff,

 

I am not sure if NTP is broken on RH 7.2, but the following shows how I have it set up.

 

Edit /etc/nbd.conf as such;

 

server  xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx prefer    ---> add stratum 2 server ip address here with the "prefer" comment (add others for redundancy) 
server  127.127.1.0     # local clock
fudge   127.127.1.0 stratum 10

 

 

Edit or create file /etc/ntp/step-tickers with the Stratum 2 IP addresses as so;

 

xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

 

Restart the ntp server;

 

# service ntpd restart

 

That should be all you need.  Run ntptrace and check the results.

 

 

James  

 -----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Silberberg [mailto:jsilberberg mindspring com]
Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2003 8:48 AM
To: JamesP musicreports com
Subject: RE: setting up NTPd

Hi James,

        I am having some similar issues with a Redhat 7.2 - "2.4.9-31enterprise" Server.  But in my case I can't get NTP to see the time servers I have defined, even though the box under it in the rack running FreeBSD sees them fine.

        Since it's 7.2 I am using /etc/ntp.conf  as the config base, but when I run ntptrace  the only server I see is 127.0.0.1

        Can you maybe pass along some hints as to how you got this running, or did you just go to RH 9 ?  Where NTP is supposedly fixed ?

        TIA,
        JMS.

Jeffrey Silberberg
CompuDesigns, Inc.
Atlanta, GA. 30350