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From: "Crist J . Clark" <cjclark@reflexnet.net>
To: User Land <userland@techie.com>
Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: rc & ntp weirdness
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On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 05:26:23PM -0500, User Land wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I recently installed 4.2 on a machine, and I was having trouble getting nat
> & the firewall to work.
> 
> As part of my trouble shooting, I added:
> 
> echo "firewall type: $firewall_type"
> echo "natd_enable" $natd_enable"
> 
> what rc.firewall spit back when I ran 'source rc.firewall'
> 
> was
> firewall type:
> natd_enable:
> 
> It seemed that rc.firewall wasn't properly sourcing /etc/defaults/rc.conf or
> /etc/rc.conf.

Not surprising. source(1) is a csh'ism and rc.firewall is a sh
script. Try it like,

  $ sh rc.firewall

> My cheap fix was to set firewall_type and natd_enable in rc.firewall (after
> the sourcing of /etc/defaults/rc.conf), and it all worked fine.
> 
> I'd only edited /etc/rc.conf minimally (mostly via /stand/sysinstall) to
> setup variables for the firewall & nat. I couldn't figure out what was
> wrong--I'm hoping someone can help point out what might be the trouble, or
> if there's a known issue like this with 4.2-Release.
> 
> Also...I followed the instructions at mostgraveconcern for setting up an ntp
> client (which works for me on a different 4.1 machine):
> 
> rc.conf
> ### Network Time Services options: ###
> xntpd_enable="YES"
> xntpd_program="ntpd"
> xntpd_flags="-p /var/run/ntpd.pid"
> 
> ntp.conf
> server time.nist.gov prefer
> server 127.127.1.0

Errr... What's that supposed to be? That's not a valid address.

> fudge 127.127.1.0 stratum 10
> driftfile /etc/ntp.drift
> 
> in var/log/messages, ntpd starts,
> 
> Dec  1 12:12:34 batcave ntpd[371]: ntpd 4.0.99b Mon Nov 20 11:27:20 GMT 2000
> (1)
> Dec  1 12:12:34 batcave ntpd[371]: using kernel phase-lock loop 2001
> 
> But no time adjustments are ever made, and /etc/ntp.drift doesn't get
> created.

The file won't be created right away. Can you use the ntpdc(8) command
to talk to your local server?

> I've read the man pages, and I'm at a loss as to why it's not making the
> adjustments... (my firewall does allow the traffic, and ntpdate -b
> time.nist.gov successfully changes the time (i'm running this hourly from a
> cron job now since ntpd isn't working)).

How do you know that ntpd is not doing anything?
-- 
Crist J. Clark                           cjclark@alum.mit.edu


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