Re: Ntpdate Errors (previously posted, +)
On Tuesday 15 June 2010 18:42:02 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.
So .. I got rid of ntpdate altogether, installed the ntp daemon instead. I
still get the error messages, now with /usr/sbin/ntpdate does not exist (of
course). So I still need to find the original cron script!
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