Re: ntpdate troubles

[Bob Hauck <bobh@haucks.org>]

On Thu, 20 Jun 2002, Jerome BENOIT wrote:

> > Another stupid question: You *ARE* doing this as root, right?  It
> > has to be run as root.
>
> Yes
>
> >
> > The manpage for ntpdate says that "-d" won't actually set the
> > clock.  Does "ntpdate -v -B ntp.apple.com" work (that is, without
> > the "-d")?
>
> without the "-d" it does not work.
>
> That the point:
> I CANNOT set the clock !

Have you done any messing with capabilities?  In src/kernel/time.c:

        /* In order to modify anything, you gotta be super-user! */
        if (txc->modes && !capable(CAP_SYS_TIME))
                return -EPERM;

Also, are you using a standard kernel or a custom one?  I'm thinking that
maybe the adjtimex() system call got broken somehow, as that's what
ntpdate uses to set the time.


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