* Carlos E. R.
Wild shot: get a copy of the configuration file from the rpm, and redo yours from scratch.
I don't understand it.
Me neither.
My logs show that I started getting the "Bad file descriptor" error: 29 Oct 10:01:51 ntpd[31709]: time reset +0.294794 s 29 Oct 10:05:06 ntpd[31709]: synchronized to 69.17.57.162, stratum 3 29 Oct 10:07:12 ntpd[31709]: synchronized to 66.187.233.4, stratum 1 29 Oct 10:39:07 xntpd[698]: sendto(216.27.160.99): Bad file descriptor 29 Oct 10:39:08 xntpd[698]: sendto(69.248.14.194): Bad file descriptor 29 Oct 10:39:09 xntpd[698]: sendto(24.220.160.49): Bad file descriptor I also notice that the log indicates it went from ntpd to xntpd ??? I stopped xntpd (rcxntpd stop), ran ntpdate, then restarted xntpd: 5 Nov 08:50:10 ntpd[14470]: synchronized to 209.204.159.18, stratum 2 5 Nov 08:56:42 ntpd[14470]: synchronized to 64.142.103.194, stratum 1 and the error was gone. note: returned from xntpd to ntpd My ntp.conf has only five instances of 'us.pool.ntp.org' and the 'driftfile' and 'logfile' entries. -- Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535 http://wahoo.no-ip.org @ http://counter.li.org HOG # US1244711 Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2