[ntp:questions] NTP installation and configuration on Solaris

Brian Utterback brian.utterback at sun.com
Tue Nov 11 13:32:19 UTC 2008


Your best bet is to create a new NTP service in SMF. You can run 
"svcfg export ntp" to get the current definition. Then create a new 
NTP service called ntp4, and make a new SMF method called ntp, and 
then import it and you should be set.

Melanie Pfefer wrote:
> how to stop and start ntp on solaris knowing that svcadm will start/stop the native ntp?
> 
> I installed ntp under /usr/local/
> 
> the bin folder has:
> 
> ntp-keygen  ntp-wait    ntpd        ntpdate     ntpdc       ntpq        ntptime     ntptrace
> 
> thanks
> 
> 
> --- On Mon, 10/11/08, Kevin Oberman <oberman at es.net> wrote:
> 
>> From: Kevin Oberman <oberman at es.net>
>> Subject: Re: [ntp:questions] NTP installation and configuration on Solaris
>> To: melanie_pfefer at yahoo.co.uk
>> Cc: questions at lists.ntp.org
>> Date: Monday, 10 November, 2008, 4:13 AM
>>> Date: Sat, 8 Nov 2008 10:25:13 +0000 (GMT)
>>> From: Melanie Pfefer
>> <melanie_pfefer at yahoo.co.uk>
>>> Sender: questions-bounces+oberman=es.net at lists.ntp.org
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> As you said, Solaris 10 has already ntp installed. I
>> followed your
>>> recommendation since you told me that the ntp bundled
>> with Solaris has
>>> an old version (how to check ntp version by the way?
>> And are we
>>> installing here a NTP server or a NTP client?)
>> It logs the version when it starts, or 
>> strings `which ntpd` | grep "NTP daemon program"
>>
>>
>>> Anyway, I installed ntp-4.2.4p4 (default
>> installation). I also
>>> disabled the solaris ntp.
>>>
>>> What are the post installation steps? I do not see a
>> configuration
>>> file. Should I simply copy /etc/inet/ntp.server to
>> /etc/inet/ntp.conf?
>>
>> Not being a Solaris person, I can't say what is in
>> /etc/inet/ntp.server. 
>>
>> The config file in most cases is a list of servers. If you
>> don't have a
>> reference server of your own and don't have contacts
>> with someone that
>> does, you can use uk.pool.ntp.org, but check with your
>> Internet provider
>> as many do have available servers. This is pretty likely to
>> have a
>> symmetric path. Asymmetric paths (that is a different path
>> to the server
>> and from the server) will result in a time offset which is
>> normally
>> fairly small, but can be over 100 ms. in some cases.
>>
>> See the man page "man ntp.conf" or see the
>> documentation at ntp.org.
>>
>> You should try to list at least three servers to provide
>> assurance that
>> one going crazy won't mess up your time. More is
>> better. I also
>> recommend using the 'iburst' argument on each
>> 'server' line. (Do NOT use
>> 'burst'!)
>>
>>> Isn’t used only by the native ntp of solaris?
>> I have no idea, but I suspect so.
>>
>>> What is the difference between /etc/inet/ntp.server
>> and /etc/inet/ntp.client?
>>> Now I have the same binaries installed under
>> /usr/local/bin and /usr/sbin
>>> which ntpq
>>> /usr/sbin/ntpq
>>>
>>> which ntpdate
>>> /usr/sbin/ntpdate
>>>
>>> which ntpq
>>> /usr/sbin/ntpq
>>>
>>>  which ntptrace
>>> /usr/sbin/ntptrace
>>>
>>> Should I simply update PATH variable? Is there any
>> better suggestion?
>>
>> Again, this is OS specific, so I'll defer to someone
>> who works with
>> Solaris. 
>> -- 
>> R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
>> Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
>> Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley
>> Lab)
>> E-mail: oberman at es.net			Phone: +1 510 486-8634
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