NTP with Solaris

jlliagre · 01-29-2007, 02:15 PM

What about specifying debugging mode by launching xntdp manually with the "-d" option added (multiple times if necessary) ?

mijohnst · 01-30-2007, 12:49 PM

Seems kind of strange to me even though my /etc/inet/ntp.conf file has the line "statsdir /var/ntp" in it, there are no logs being created. The directory is there it's just empty. I've also looked for errors in the /var/adm/messages file and nothing about ntp.

I couldn't find an example of how to use the "-d" so I'm guessing that it's something like this:

Code:

/etc/init.d/xntpd start -d

jlliagre · 01-30-2007, 02:14 PM

The startup script is ignoring the extra argument. Run directly the command instead, like the manual page is showing:

Code:

/usr/lib/inet/xntpd -d -d

mijohnst · 01-30-2007, 02:56 PM

Thanks for your patients jlliagre... After running that, it immediately showed my problem.

Code:

getconfig: couldn't open </etc/inet/ntp.conf>

So I looked at the file permissions and they are like this:

Code:

_rw_r__r__   1   root   other   /etc/inet/ntp.conf

So I changed to:

Code:

_rw_r__r__   1   root   sys     /etc/inet/ntp.conf

I still get the same problem. Should I open it up to 755 or something? Thanks for the help!

mijohnst · 01-30-2007, 03:51 PM

Thank you for all your help! The answer was in the details.... I had my ntp.conf file named ntp.config.... I'm an idiot... Anyhow... seems to be working!

jlliagre · 01-30-2007, 04:07 PM

Glad you succeeded