[ntp:questions] Finding out where ntpd gets its ntp.conf file

Hal Murray hal-usenet at ip-64-139-1-69.sjc.megapath.net
Tue Sep 9 05:40:01 UTC 2008


>> [peterc at tantalus ~]$ strings /usr/sbin/ntpd|grep ntp.conf
>> /etc/ntp.conf

>In the RHEL case, this would find exactly the wrong copy of ntp.conf, 
>being the one we were changing to no avail, not the one that NTP was in 
>fact using.

It's even worse than that.  You aren't even sure that's
the right copy of ntpd to be searching.

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