Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 126797
ntpd doesn't start right
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:10:45 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040510 Description of problem: No ntpd service unless started by hand Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): ntp-4.2.0-7 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.service ntpd start 2. 3. Actual Results: Synchronizing to server FAILED ntpd start OK But "service ntpd status" reports pidfile exists, no server running. Starting ntpd by hand (no arguments) gets the ball rolling Expected Results: At least running ntpd Additional info:
do you have selinux activated?
The system had FC2 test 2, was then upgraded. I assume SElinux is active (sorry, no access to the machine right now)
try: # modprobe capabilities # service ntp restart
I discovered some other things about this. It seems that ntpd -U ntp failt to start but without the -U ntp it starts okay. The /etc/sysconfif/ntpd file contains -U ntp -p /var/run/ntpd.pid so just removing the -U ntp allows it to start fine. My guess is that there are problems changing id.