Technical note added. If any revisions are required, please edit the "Technical Notes" field accordingly. All revisions will be proofread by the Engineering Content Services team. New Contents: The "-q" command line option causes the ntpd service to exit immediately after the clock is set. Prior to this update, the man page ntpd(8) did not document that this only occurs if there are servers configured for ntpd to set the clock against. The user could conclude that ntpd was misbehaving when it did not quit if run with the "-q" switch but with no configured servers. With this update, the ntpd(8) man page notes that "ntpd -q" only exits if used to set the clock with configured servers.
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2011-0980.html