[ntp:questions] NTP will fail once a week

Danny Mayer mayer at gis.net
Tue Feb 15 05:43:05 UTC 2005


At 06:41 PM 2/14/2005, John Pettitt wrote:
>It would seem that the way to fix this would be restart ntpd when all 
>non-local clocks have been unavailable for some extended period.  It would 
>be petty easy to script somthing to run from cron once an hour that checks 
>for connectivity and then restarts ntpd if the network is up but ntpd is 
>not seeing any peers.

There are already scripts out there that check the IP address and do that.
There may even be one in the distribution.

Danny




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