Re: Ntpdate Errors (previously posted, +)
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 06:42:02PM +0300, David Baron wrote:
> On Saturday 12 June 2010 23:02:11 David Baron wrote:
> > > > I have no cron running ntpdate that I know of and there is no ntpdate
> > > > entry in anacrontab. I run it in an rc.local type script on bootup.
> > > > Period. This run works.
> > > >
> > > > The only thing I can think of is an obsolete webmin entry but I have
> > > > not run webmin for ages. This simply made cron scripts for me as far
> > > > as I know and I have no ntpdate crons that I can find. Where else
> > > > might I look?
> > >
> > > /var/spool/cron/ is the first place I would look for cron enttries. They
> > > should be plain text files, so they're easy to grep through. Then I'd
> > > look for scripts in /etc/cron.*/ as already mentioned.
> >
> > Yes, I have it in (correction)
> > /var/spool/cron/crontabs/root
> >
> > Where is the original?
>
> I still have been unable to find it. Removing the file on /var would
> accomplish nothing. Next bootup will have it back.
>
I missed the beginning of this thread, but I'm assuming that ntpdate is
running regularly and you don't know why. If I'm wrong, just ignore me.
If I'm right, then you could just uninstall ntpdate and switch to ntpd.
-Rob
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