FC4 NTPD problem

[Steffen Kluge]

On Thu, 2005-09-22 at 14:07 -0700, jdow wrote:
> Vikram needs to provide some information from his ntp.conf file.
> It may be setup wrong. It is also possible he has recompiled his
> kernel. There are options that make ntp synchronization very poor.

From the error message he's getting this doesn't look like an ntpd
problem at all. When the init script says "Synchronizing with time
server:" it actually runs ntpdate. This happens whenever there is either
a non-zero /etc/ntp/step-tickers file, or the -x options is
given /etc/sysconfig/ntpd.

The time server arguments given to ntpdate are the contents of
step-tickers, or if that's empty, are parsed out of ntp.conf.

Since -x is not present in /etc/sysconfig/ntpd by default I assume the
OP has a step-tickers file. The servers listed in there may or may not
be the sames ones as in ntp.conf. That's the first think I'd check: 

ntpdate -d -b `cat /etc/ntp/step-tickers`

Cheers
Steffen.

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