Fedora 7: a problem with ntp ?

[Andrew Junev]

Saturday, September 8, 2007, 12:37:01 PM, you wrote:

> And that fairly screams that its an selinux problem, one that setting it to
> permissive mode does NOT fix in my experience.

I disabled selinux already during the installation.

> Append to the end of the kernel arguments line in your grub.conf, 'selinux=0'
> without the quotes and reboot.  If that fixes it, throw it back at the
> selinux mailing list where Stephen Smalley hangs out.

Hmmm... Although I disabled selinux, I didn't have 'selinux=0' in my
grub.conf. Probably it gets disabled somewhere else. Anyway, I added
this parameter and rebooted the system. Still no changes in ntpd
behavior.

Sep  8 12:56:10 frontend_light ntpdate[1943]: step time server 66.187.233.4 offset -65.237699 sec
Sep  8 12:56:10 frontend_light ntpd[1945]: ntpd 4.2.4p2 at 1.1495-o Tue Aug 21 14:07:56 UTC 2007 (1)
Sep  8 12:56:10 frontend_light ntpd[1946]: precision = 1.000 usec
Sep  8 12:56:10 frontend_light ntpd[1946]: Listening on interface #0 wildcard, 0.0.0.0#123 Disabled
Sep  8 12:56:10 frontend_light ntpd[1946]: Listening on interface #1 wildcard, ::#123 Disabled
Sep  8 12:56:10 frontend_light ntpd[1946]: Listening on interface #2 lo, ::1#123 Enabled
Sep  8 12:56:10 frontend_light ntpd[1946]: Listening on interface #3 eth0, fe80::230:5ff:fe22:857#123 Enabled
Sep  8 12:56:10 frontend_light ntpd[1946]: Listening on interface #4 lo, 127.0.0.1#123 Enabled
Sep  8 12:56:10 frontend_light ntpd[1946]: Listening on interface #5 eth0, 172.23.0.133#123 Enabled
Sep  8 12:56:10 frontend_light ntpd[1946]: kernel time sync status 0040
Sep  8 12:56:11 frontend_light ntpd[1946]: frequency initialized 0.000 PPM from /var/lib/ntp/drift


On my Fedora 6 machine ntpd is working fine:

 6 Sep 23:13:05 ntpd[2770]: synchronized to 128.10.252.10, stratum 2
 7 Sep 03:20:43 ntpd[2770]: synchronized to 130.89.164.77, stratum 2
 7 Sep 04:46:10 ntpd[2770]: synchronized to 128.10.252.10, stratum 2
 7 Sep 06:47:57 ntpd[2770]: synchronized to 130.89.164.77, stratum 2
 7 Sep 07:53:58 ntpd[2770]: synchronized to 128.10.252.10, stratum 2


[root at frontend_light ~]# ntpq -p
     remote           refid      st t when poll reach   delay   offset  jitter
==============================================================================
 balthazar.tihld 192.36.144.22    2 u   15   64  377   41.875  -3341.6 1648.40
 bbs.csie.ncyu.e 220.130.158.71   3 u   13   64  377  364.927  -3354.8 1646.82
 hobbes.macvaerk 193.162.142.71   3 u   14   64  377  128.439  -3332.9 1608.39
[root at frontend_light ~]# ntpstat
unsynchronised
  time server re-starting
   polling server every 64 s
[root at frontend_light ~]#