[ntp:questions] Should ntpd log failure to syslog?

Hal Murray hal-usenet at ip-64-139-1-69.sjc.megapath.net
Wed Dec 10 22:34:18 UTC 2008


>I'm querying whether ntpd will log an error to syslog if it can't
>synchronise the time.
>
>I had assumed it would - and therefore we would be able to see such a
>problem through off-box syslog analysis.
>
>If it doesn't log such a failure itself, I'll need to add a monitoring
>script (which *will* log to syslog).
>
>My enquiry was to whether I'd got something wrong, in either the
>configuration of ntpd or in my assumptions about it's behaviour.

I don't think it logs what you want.

Keep in mind that "ntpd working" isn't quite a black/white.

You probably want to know if one of the servers you are using
has died so you can switch to another before too many more die.

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