topic Re: NTP.conf in Operating System - Linux

NTP.conf

Kyle D. Harris — Tue, 06 Jan 2004 08:36:32 GMT

Is anybody familiar with what directory the ntp.conf file is in on 6.2 and also 8.0? Or is there not always one upon installation? Thanks.

Re: NTP.conf

Alexander Chuzhoy — Tue, 06 Jan 2004 08:40:27 GMT

On redhat 8.0 the ntp.conf is in /etc directory
Don't know about redhat 6.2
Best regards.....

It sure comes with default installation , but of course you can select it for not to install..

Re: NTP.conf

Mark Grant — Tue, 06 Jan 2004 08:49:24 GMT

Hi Kylie,

If you are having trouble you can always do this.

"locate ntp.conf"

Or for a thorough search of your system try

"find / -name ntp.conf -print"

It might take a while if you have a huge hard disk and/or CD's mounted but it will find it if it's there and if it doesn't, you know it's not there.

Re: NTP.conf

Kyle D. Harris — Tue, 06 Jan 2004 09:01:05 GMT

Mark-
doing the locate command it immediately came back to the prompt and it's not in the /etc directory so i'm guessing I don't have a ntp.conf file. My System clock is off some thus making it a medium vulnerability apparently. Since i don't have the file, how do i go about getting it or setting up my server to be in sync all the time? Thanks a ton!

Kyle

Re: NTP.conf

Elmar P. Kolkman — Tue, 06 Jan 2004 09:01:41 GMT

Perhaps you should first see if ntp is installed on your system. Check /etc/init.d for the xntpd file (could be xntp, don't have a RedHat system near). Or query your RPM database for xntp. Or check in /usr/bin for commands containing the string ntp:
ls /usr/bin/*ntp*

Re: NTP.conf

Kyle D. Harris — Tue, 06 Jan 2004 09:04:44 GMT

[oracle8i@mcsd4 bin]$ ls /usr/bin/*ntp*
/usr/bin/konsole_grantpty /usr/bin/nntplist

Thats what i got... looks odd.

Re: NTP.conf

Alexander Chuzhoy — Tue, 06 Jan 2004 09:16:58 GMT

issue
rpm -q ntp

this should return the ntp version installed if it was installed with rpm .
I suggest you to download the rpm and to istall it (If you want the updated version) or to take it from the installation media...

Re: NTP.conf

Olivier Drouin — Tue, 06 Jan 2004 10:27:10 GMT

I use

3 * * * * rdate -s 142.X.X.X

in my root cron.

Anybody see issues with that ?

Sorry for the threadjack ;-).

Re: NTP.conf

Elmar P. Kolkman — Wed, 07 Jan 2004 02:24:07 GMT

Kyle,

Those commands have to do with nntp, which is used for accessing/managing newsgroups. It seems you don't have ntp installed on your system. So it would seem that's your first issue.

You could download the RPM from RedHat or install it from CD.

Then you can ask again for more info on the ntp.conf.