Re: ntpdate troubles

[Jerome BENOIT <benoit@eie.gr>]

Thank you for your message.

My kernel is a standard one: 2.2.19 (potato).
But I biuld my own kernle with `make-kpkg'
(the debian tool to build quickly a personnalised):
may be I removed an option that I should not.

Since I have the same troubles with another
computer running with the kernel installed by Debian,
I guess that I have misconfigured my connect with the
local network.

Thanks,
Jerome

Bob Hauck wrote:
> 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.


--
Jerome BENOIT, Ph.D.
JGMBenoit@wanadoo.fr



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