From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0) Description of problem: The startup script for ntp checks to see if /etc/ntp/step-tickers exists- if it does, it tries to run ntpdate to sync the clock. However, the script reports success even if ntpdate fails Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 4.1.0-4 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Change /etc/ntp/step-tickers to have an IP address of a server without ntp service. 2. (Re)start ntpd with /etc/init.d/ntpd. Actual Results: Script reports success on ntpdate time sync. Expected Results: Script should have reported failure on ntpdate time sync. Additional info: This bug confused us for quite some time as to why ntpd was not working properly (considering the lack of good documentation on it- not even a man page!)
fixed in 4.1.0b-5