[20204] in Athena Bugs
Re: LIDS Athena Cluster
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Petr M. Swedock)
Thu Feb 28 20:26:37 2002
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 20:26:35 -0500 (EST)
Message-Id: <200203010126.UAA17555@nerd-xing.mit.edu>
From: "Petr M. Swedock" <petr@MIT.EDU>
To: zacheiss@mit.edu
CC: bugs@mit.edu
In-reply-to: <200202282330.SAA18130@riff-raff.mit.edu> (message from Garry
Zacheiss on Thu, 28 Feb 2002 18:30:41 -0500)
: Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 18:30:41 -0500
: From: Garry Zacheiss <zacheiss@MIT.EDU>
: CC: <bugs@mit.edu>
:
:
: > 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.
Yes, I see. I'm at a loss to explain the multiple, repeated, 'time
sync' errors in /var/adm/messages... I've seen them in a bunch
(haven't looked at all) of the machines in my cluster.
I've seen this problem before... but in Solaris 2.[5,6]... where, I
think, the script doesn't have the fail-safe 'exit 0' (or, at least
I don't remember seeing it before. I'll keep looking at it. Is this
the right place for queries of this sort?
Thanks.
Peace,
Petr Swedock
