[ntp:questions] Why does ntp keep changing my conf file?

[Daniel Havey]

Ha!  Found the little beastie from the init.d script.  Hehe ;^)  I'm smarter than this computer ;^)

/etc/init.d/ntpd start calls a script /usr/local/etc/emulab/ntpstart that has a variable 
my $useold = 1;
change it to zero and the beast doesn't overwrite anymore ;^)


Now if only I could get the NTP server to actually work properly, then I will be in business ;^)

--- On Thu, 9/16/10, Rob <nomail at example.com> wrote:

> From: Rob <nomail at example.com>
> Subject: Re: [ntp:questions] Why does ntp keep changing my conf file?
> To: questions at lists.ntp.org
> Date: Thursday, September 16, 2010, 11:05 AM
> Daniel Havey <dhavey at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> > Well you are right.  The init.d script does
> something that rewrites the ntp.conf file.  I don't
> understand enough bash to figure it out so I just started
> ntp manually.  It doesn't change the ntp.conf ;^)
> >
> > But it doesn't work properly either ;^(
> > First of all this looks fishy:
> > [dhavey at node0 /etc]$ ntpq -p
> >      remote       
>    refid      st t when poll
> reach   delay   offset 
> jitter
> >
> ==============================================================================
> >  cogsworth.aero. .INIT.     
>     16 u    - 1024    0 
>   0.000    0.000   0.000
> >  dns.aero.org    .INIT.   
>       16 u    - 1024   
> 0    0.000   
> 0.000   0.000
> >
> > Those delay, offset, and jitter values are too good to
> be true and the other machine won't connect:
> > [dhavey at node1 ~]$ sudo ntpdate
> node0.rms01.wgs.sntb.aero.org
> > 16 Sep 10:24:03 ntpdate[25389]: no server suitable for
> synchronization found
> >
> > Hmmm...
> 
> There is probably a firewall running that blocks all your
> NTP traffic.
> 
> Such an automatically managed system is nice, but when you
> don't understand
> it is is more of a hindrance.
> 
> There probably is some checkmark somewhere that tells the
> system to open
> up the firewall for NTP traffic and then the startup script
> for the firewall
> will write a config file just as it did for ntp, containing
> an allow entry
> for UDP port 123.
> 
> Now you only need to find where it is.
> 
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