topic Re: ntp question! in Operating System - HP-UX

ntp question!

Amit Manna_6 — Wed, 10 Aug 2005 06:00:37 GMT

Hi
When i am giving ps -aef | grep ntp on a server its gives me the following:

ntp 698 1 0 2004 ? 00:00:00 ntpd -U ntp

Can anybody let me know what this denotes?

Re: ntp question!

Mark Grant — Wed, 10 Aug 2005 06:04:09 GMT

the ntpd daemon is running on the machine as the user "ntp".

Though generally speaking, on HPUX systems, I've seen xntpd. Is this a Linux box?

Re: ntp question!

Pedro Cirne — Wed, 10 Aug 2005 06:08:01 GMT

Hi,

The option -U ntp, means the ntpd daemon switch to user ntp instead of using root previleges to run!

As you see, the user of the process is "ntp"

Enjoy :)

Pedro

Re: ntp question!

Florian Heigl (new acc) — Wed, 10 Aug 2005 06:08:38 GMT

maybe it's just the regular ntp distribution, though this also would be strange on hp-ux. :)

Re: ntp question!

Bill Hassell — Wed, 10 Aug 2005 09:01:41 GMT

ntpd definitely is not normal for HP-UX. It sounds like someone has downloaded some freeware version of NTP, not good. I would investigate where this ntpd file is located, see if there are other related files, then uninstall it as soon as possible. HP-UX has had a clean version of NTP since before version 10.01 and it runs xntpd so that there is never a loss or gain of a single second in the server. xntpd will slightly adjust the speed of the clock to sync the time to within 128ms of the time servers.