From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050323 Fedora/1.7.6-1.3.2 Description of problem: When trying to reduce network load from NTP I tried to increase the poll interval from the default 64s to 256s following the instructions in ntpd(1), but it failed. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): ntp-4.2.0.a.20040617-4 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Edit /etc/ntp.conf adding "tinker minpoll 256" 2. /sbin/service ntpd restart 3. tail /var/log/messages Actual Results: Apr 2 18:34:04 bandsman ntpd[21068]: configure: keyword "minpoll" unknown, line ignored Expected Results: Minpoll should have been increased Additional info:
The tinker minpoll command is not supported since ntp-4.2.0, so it was an inconsistency in the man page. Fixed in rawhide. Use the minpoll option in server command instead.