Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4570 mails)

[John Summerfield <suse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 28 Nov 2005, Mike McMullin wrote:

>
> On Mon, 2005-11-28 at 18:01 -0500, Bruce Marshall wrote:
> > On Monday 28 November 2005 05:48 pm, Bjørge Solli wrote:
> > > > Then there must be a problem with the firewall....   I've never had to
> > > > open ports for NTP and no routers do either that I am aware of.
> > >
> > > Well not according to this:
> > > <http://ntp.isc.org/bin/view/Support/TroubleshootingNTP>
> >
> > Suture self.....   I can find no reference to port 123 in my router setup nor
> > in the shorewall setup I used to run.
> >
> > Yet ntp is working fine.
>
>   How do you test it to make sure it's properly connected?  I opened a
> shell (system has been rebooted between the last time and now) and
>
> linux:/home/Mike # /etc/init.d/ntp status
> Checking for network time protocol daemon (NTPD):
> running
>
>   Can I assume that this means everything is working all right?  This is
> today's entry from /var/log/ntp:
>
> 28 Nov 00:46:11 ntpd[4865]: ntpd exiting on signal 15
> 28 Nov 07:19:56 ntpd[4884]: synchronized to LOCAL(0), stratum 10
> 28 Nov 07:19:56 ntpd[4884]: kernel time sync disabled 0041
> 28 Nov 07:21:00 ntpd[4884]: kernel time sync enabled 0001
> 28 Nov 07:22:06 ntpd[4884]: synchronized to 199.212.17.20, stratum 2
That's good news.