Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 14:18:23 -0700 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: Kevin Kinsey <kdk@daleco.biz> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ntpd(8) exits quietly after fork() Message-ID: <D207BD8A-51B3-4AD8-85A8-4B0C96533B95@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <45F70631.2010404@daleco.biz> References: <45F70631.2010404@daleco.biz>
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Hi, Kevin--
On Mar 13, 2007, at 1:14 PM, Kevin Kinsey wrote:
> ntpd won't continue running on my "stratum 2" server (making our
> other systems a tad untrustworthy "as time goes by").
>
> $ uname -a
> FreeBSD ezekiel.daleco.biz 6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE #5: Sat
> Jan 20 16:41:42 CST 2007 root@ezekiel.daleco.biz:/usr/obj/usr/src/
> sys/GENERIC i386
>
> using ktrace and kdump I get this prior to exit:
[ ... ]
The logging paths seen in the ktrace are rather non-standard--
perhaps ntpd doesn't have the right permissions to write to them?
Normally, ntpd logs to the NTP facility and critical messages might
appear in /var/log/messages, so additional clues are probably there.
Showing your ntp.conf file would also help, but if you'd like to see
an example of a working stratum-2 conf file which has been in use for
quite some time:
1-pi# cat /etc/ntp.conf
# /etc/ntp.conf, configuration for ntpd
driftfile /etc/ntp.drift
statsdir /var/log/ntp/
statistics sysstats
filegen sysstats file sysstats type week enable
#logconfig =syncevents +sysevents # +allclock
#statistics loopstats peerstats clockstats
#filegen loopstats file loopstats type day enable
#filegen peerstats file peerstats type day enable
#filegen clockstats file clockstats type day enable
server time.nist.gov maxpoll 12
server bonehed.lcs.mit.edu maxpoll 12
server sundial.columbia.edu maxpoll 12
server wwv.otc.psu.edu maxpoll 12
#peer pi.codefab.com maxpoll 12
peer pong.codefab.com maxpoll 12
peer shot.codefab.com maxpoll 12
peer ns1.pkix.net maxpoll 12
restrict default nomodify
restrict localhost
#discard average 9 minimum 2
#restrict default limited
restrict 64.152.61.123 kod
# ...list of bad clients being fed "kod" or "ignore" trimmed...
2-pi# grep ntp /etc/syslog.conf
ntp.debug /var/log/ntp/ntp.log
3-pi# ntpq -p
remote refid st t when poll reach delay
offset jitter
========================================================================
======
-time.nist.gov .ACTS. 1 u 41m 68m 37 49.991
7.961 0.580
*bonehed.lcs.mit .CDMA. 1 u 204 68m 377 20.057
-2.610 6.201
+hickory.cc.colu 128.59.39.48 2 u 245 68m 377 25.537
-1.196 7.415
-otc1.psu.edu .WWV. 1 u 276 68m 377 36.047
-21.679 0.037
+pong 18.145.0.30 2 u 274 1024 377 0.257
-3.274 2.857
+shot 65.212.71.103 2 u 495 1024 377 0.343
1.467 0.664
-ns1 129.6.15.29 2 u 929 1024 376 0.389
-5.890 0.769
For more details, one could also see:
http://ntp1.codefab.com/ntpstats/ntp_stats.txt
http://www.pool.ntp.org/scores/199.103.21.227
--
-Chuck
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