[ntp:questions] Finding out where ntpd gets its ntp.conf file
David Woolley
david at ex.djwhome.demon.co.uk.invalid
Thu Sep 4 22:39:04 UTC 2008
Steve Kostecke wrote:
>
> And your point is?
My point is that there was reasonable grounds to believe that the OP had
actually looked inside /etc/inet.d/ntpd, but you were telling him how to
find it.
>
> It is highly likely that the OP has not bothered to grep the /etc/
> directory for instances of 'ntp.conf'.
He was already aware of /etc/ntp.conf, but assures us that it isn't
actually used by the ntpd in question.
>
> That _one_ simple act would render this entire discussion moot because
> it would clearly the ntp.conf file being passed to ntpd.
I believe he has already established that it is not.
> > [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.
Unfortunately I don't have access to a copy of RHEL and don't even have
access to earlier versions, at home, without formatting up a partition
and installing it, so I can't confirm what he is reporting and I'm
having to rely on my memory of how the start up scripts work.
Typical things that might be done are:
- using the /var tree (7 Google hits for /var/etc/ntp.conf;
- using a sub-directory of /etc (582 for /etc/ntp/ntp.conf; 4 for
/etc/sysconfig/ntpd.conf; 75 for /etc/config/ntp.conf);
- name variations (3420 /etc/ntpd.conf)
- using a chroot environment (186 for chrooted ntpd, rather more for
chroot AND ntpd, although there isn't a simple test for filenames;
- linking to /opt, with automatic "repair" of the link (SCO Openserver
will soft link /opt, but I don't think it would automatically repair).
Even if they are not done for RHEL, he is using multiple systems, and
they may well be done for some of them.
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