NTP startup

[Tom Horan]

I have 5 servers (11 and 10.20) running NTP, they are collecting the time from a local server. All is working fine but I have one little problem - How do I get NTP to kick in at bootup, I currently have to start the daemon manually /sbin/init.d/xntpd start .

Any help would be appreciated.

Cheers

Paul

[James R. Ferguson · Accepted solution]

Hi Paul:

In /etc/rc.config.d/netdaemons set XNTPD=1.

Regards!

...JRF...

[Santosh Nair_1]

If you've set up everything in the startup scripts, i.e. /sbin/init.d/xntpd, then the NTP daemons should startup up at boot time. Just verify that /etc/rc.config.d/netdaemons has the proper values:

export NTPDATE_SERVER=
export XNTPD=1
export XNTPD_ARGS=

-Santosh

[Robin Wakefield]

Hi Paul,

Sounds like your rc*.d links are missing. Run the following and see how it compares:

cd /sbin
find *.d -name "*xntpd" | xargs ll
-r-xr-xr-x 1 bin bin 1823 Sep 13 1997 init.d/xntpd
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root sys 18 Jun 10 1996 rc1.d/K340xntpd -> /sbin/init.d/xntpd
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root sys 18 Jun 10 1996 rc2.d/S660xntpd -> /sbin/init.d/xntpd

Also have a look in /etc/rc.log for any problems. If "/sbin/init.d/xntpd start" works, your config file is probably OK.

Rgds, Robin.

[Sachin Patel]

Hi Paul,
edit file /etc/rc.cofig.d/netdaemons

export NTPDATE_SERVER=
export XNTPD=1
export XNTPD_ARGS=

Then
#/sbin/rc2.d/S660xntpd stop
#/sbin/rc2.d/S660xntpd start (If this works then xntpd will start at boot time)

Sachin

[A. Clay Stephenson]

Normally, if you configure using SAM then that is done for you. However, you can do it manually. If there is already an xntpd script in /sbin/init.d then the process is very easy.
Simply ln -s /sbin/init.d/xntpd /sbin/rc2.d/K660xntpd and ln -s /sbin/init.d/xntpd /sbin/rc1.d/K340xntpd.
These links will start and stop the xntpd daemon automatically.
If you have no xntpd script in /sbin/init.d then simply copy one of the scripts already in /sbin/init.d to xntpd. You then modify the start), start_mesg), stop), and stop_mesg sections to do the appropriate actions. Finally make the links as above and you are good to go.

Clay

[Deshpande Prashant]

Hi
Check the file /etc/rc.cofig.d/netdaemons
for following variable -
export XNTPD=1

The value should be 1 for automatic startup at boot.

Thanks.
Prashant.

[Sanjay_6]

Hi Paul,

Like the others have already told, edit /etc/rc.config.d/netdaemons and modify the line XNTPD=0 to
XNTPD=1

At the next reboot the xntpd daemon should restart on its own.

Hope this helps.

thanks