Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 87962
Redhat 9 redhat-config-date only allows 1 step-ticker
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:52:45 EDT
Description of problem: In both Redhat 8 and 9, if I have 2+ lines in /etc/ntp/step-tickers and run redhat-config-date, after exiting /etc/ntp/step-tickers will only have 1 server listed. This is annoying for us laptop people who want 1 step-ticker for home and 1 for work... Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): redhat-config-date-1.5.9-8 How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. Edit /etc/ntp/step-tickers, add additional servers 2. Right click on clock, pick Adjust Time & Date 3. Pick a server off the list 4. Click OK. 5. After it says "contacting NTP server", click OK. 6. Note that /etc/ntp/step-tickers now has only 1 line in it Actual results: Expected results: Additional info:
The tool is only designed to configure one NTP server. It's designed to be a really easy way for people to specify an time server without getting into the details of NTP, so there are many NTP capabilities that redhat-config-date doesn't allow the user to do in the interface. If you really need to configure multiple servers, I would suggest configuring the config files by hand and not using redhat-config-date.