[20203] in Athena Bugs
Re: LIDS Athena Cluster
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Garry Zacheiss)
Thu Feb 28 18:30:44 2002
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 18:30:41 -0500
Message-Id: <200202282330.SAA18130@riff-raff.mit.edu>
From: Garry Zacheiss <zacheiss@MIT.EDU>
To: "Petr M. Swedock" <petr@mit.edu>
CC: <bugs@mit.edu>
In-reply-to: "[20202] in Athena Bugs"
> Also, in the cluster there is a misconfiguration in the startup
> scripts: specifically, there are two calls to two different binaries
> that serve ntp. In the /etc/rc2.d/ directory there is a call to
> xntpd in /etc/rc2.d/S74xntpd and a call to ntpd in
> /etc/rc2.d/S90athena.
This isn't actually a bug. If you read the Solaris-shipped xntpd
script, you'll see the first thing it does in the "start" case is exit
if /etc/inet/ntp.conf doesn't exist; nothing in the Athena release
installs such a file, so this script will always be a no-op when run at
boot time.
Garry
