ntpd on FreeBSD
Lowell Gilbert
freebsd-questions-local at be-well.ilk.org
Sat Jul 29 12:57:25 UTC 2006
Freminlins <freminlins at 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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