Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2006 08:57:21 -0400 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: Freminlins <freminlins@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: ntpd on FreeBSD Message-ID: <44r7046026.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <eeef1a4c0607280220v56d7c6cfufcb543e8f1867d05@mail.gmail.com> (freminlins@gmail.com's message of "Fri, 28 Jul 2006 10:20:15 %2B0100") References: <eeef1a4c0607280220v56d7c6cfufcb543e8f1867d05@mail.gmail.com>
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Freminlins <freminlins@gmail.com> writes: > Hello, > > After a power outaga (Level 3 at Goswell Road, London), all our FreeBSD > machines came up OK. > > Nearly all of them had a problem though with ntpd. I'm guessing that most of > these machines booted before the the ntp servers came up. What happens is > that the machine runs two copies of ntpd: > > root 337 0.0 0.3 2964 1772 ?? Ss Sun04PM > 0:24.75/usr/sbin/ntpd -c /etc/ntp.conf -p /var/run/ntpd.pid > root 427 0.0 0.3 2964 1788 ?? S Sun04PM > 0:00.76/usr/sbin/ntpd -c /etc/ntp.conf -p /var/run/ntpd.pid > > ... and they never sync. The only way to fix this is to kill both ntpds, > then restart ntpd. > > Is there a tidy way round this? It's not much fun logging into 40+ machines > and killing a restarting a key process. I have no idea why two ntpds are > running in the first place. The machines that are correct have an identical > config. For what it's worth, I spent a while looking at it, and I can't see anything that would cause this. Ending up with *no* ntpd running, I can imaging from various failures, but not two. I suspect I would need another clue to look in the right place.
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