ntpd syching with other servers

[Blaqb0x]

Hi,

I started ntpd and it seems synchronize with stratum 1 servers at startup. but, I don't see any synching in my logs after that. How can you schedule sychronizing.

I thought you could use ntpdate but, that complains that ntpd is already in use....

5 May 12:06:39 ntpdate[1872]: the NTP socket is in use, exiting

[trickster]

ntpd is a daemon; it stays running in the background...

[Blaqb0x]

I'd figure that it would send something to the logs every time it tried to sync with other ntp servers. I don't see that. I'm just looking for confirmation that it is getting updated by it's stratum 1 server.

[Compunuts]

[quote author=Blaqb0x link=board=4;threadid=9156;start=0#msg82809 date=1083862293]
I'd figure that it would send something to the logs every time it tried to sync with other ntp servers.
[/quote]
I dont' run ntpd so I'm not exactly sure but if it were to log every activity of it, you will have loads of logs.

[elovkoff]

I'm running xntpd.....but it may be applicable in your case, if you run ntpq -p it will shouw you the peers and if you see the * in fron of one of them then it means that it is being synched with this server, should give you the indication.......
If memory serves me with xntps you can also specify the location of the log file in xntpd.conf.....just can't give you the specifics, I'm not at work now.....
Cheers.

[imported_camelrider]

I have a shell script that runs as a root cron-job.

#! /bin/sh

/usr/sbin/ntpdate -u -b -s url-of-timeserver > /dev/null

/sbin/hwclock --systohc > /dev/null

exit 0

Hope this helps. It shows up in /var/log/messages.