[ntp:questions] Will ntpd tell me if it encounters problems?
gluino
gluino at gmail.com
Wed Apr 11 12:10:56 UTC 2007
Hi all,
I am using the default ntpd setup in plain redhat box. Default
settings except for specifying a nearer time server.
Everything seems fine (ntpq pasted below), and it has been left alone
for months.
Said box hardly receives human attention, and is depended on for time
sync by a couple hundred local machines.
My question is: how would I know if ntpd has problems. I'm thinking of
some kind of alert when ntpd is unable to contact any good time
servers, for example.
# ntpq -np
remote refid st t when poll reach delay
offset jitter
==============================================================================
203.117.180.36 .INIT. 16 u - 1024 0 0.000 0.000
4000.00
+64.109.43.141 130.149.17.21 2 u 534 1024 377 313.466
-19.302 2.021
+64.246.40.39 67.15.110.21 3 u 505 1024 377 253.106
-13.209 0.184
127.127.1.0 LOCAL(0) 10 l 60 64 377 0.000
0.000 0.001
*203.117.180.36 .ACTS. 1 u 582 1024 337 31.425
4.047 1.380
Assume the above is healthy?
Thanks very much.
gluino
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