Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2018 11:41:32 -0400 (EDT) From: doug@safeport.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Starting ntpd in a jail Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.20.1809281125360.39669@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <dc35e5fe09ae5358576089b49954bd69@dweimer.net> References: <8a138f2e-11d4-d890-c28d-72717a9eed3a@netfence.it> <dc35e5fe09ae5358576089b49954bd69@dweimer.net>
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On Fri, 28 Sep 2018, Dean E. Weimer via freebsd-questions wrote: > On 2018-09-28 8:50 am, Andrea Venturoli wrote: >> Hello. >> >> I'm trying to run ntpd in a jail. >> Before someone points out it won't be able to set time, that's ok :) I >> just want other clients to be able to synchronize with it. >> >> I can manually "service ntpd start" and it will happily work, but it >> won't start at boot (or if I restart the jail). >> >> Running "rcorder /etc/rc.d/ntpd" gives the same result in the jail as >> in base (where ntpd starts correctly): >>> rcorder: file `/etc/rc.d/ntpd' is before unknown provision `LOGIN' >>> rcorder: requirement `devfs' in file `/etc/rc.d/ntpd' has no providers. >>> rcorder: requirement `FILESYSTEMS' in file `/etc/rc.d/ntpd' has no >>> providers. >>> rcorder: requirement `ntpdate' in file `/etc/rc.d/ntpd' has no providers. >>> rcorder: requirement `DAEMON' in file `/etc/rc.d/ntpd' has no providers. >> >> Any hint? > > I tried to do this a while back, everyone told me it wasn't possible. The > solution ended up being that you don't restrict the answering IP address on > ntpd running on the host. That way the clients receive the answer from the > host on the jails IP address, instead of the jail. I am missing something here. The jail share the kernel. Unless you want the jail to be in a different time zone than the kernel, why run ntp in a jail. It is interesting that even works.
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