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<FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>Running xymon 4.3.13 on SuSe ES 11 SP 3, the ntp test isn’t working:<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><FONT SIZE="4"><FONT FACE="Times, Times New Roman"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:14.5pt'><B>Fri Jan 10 08:21:02 2014 ntp ok<BR>
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Service ntp on ns6.aelabad.net is OK (up)<BR>
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Command: ntpdate -u -q -p 2 10.1.9.51 2>&1<BR>
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!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WARNING !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!<BR>
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The ntpdate program is deprecated and should not be used any more. To<BR>
quote the upstream ntp developers:<BR>
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"The functionality ntpdate offered is now provided by the ntpd daemon<BR>
itself. If you call ntpd with the command line option -q it will<BR>
retrieve the current time and set it accordingly."<BR>
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Please check the Network Time Protocol (NTP) daemon man page and<BR>
<a href="http://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Dev/DeprecatingNtpdate">http://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Dev/DeprecatingNtpdate</a><BR>
for further information.<BR>
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You can replace the ntpdate call with "rcntp ntptimeset" to achieve an<BR>
inital poll of the servers specified in /etc/ntp.conf.<BR>
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The program /usr/sbin/sntp offers comparable functionality to ntpdate.<BR>
Specifically<BR>
sntp -P no -r pool.ntp.org<BR>
is equivalent to<BR>
ntpdate pool.ntp.org<BR>
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For further details please refer to the man page of sntp.<BR>
sntp: unable to write PID to /etc/sntp.pid<BR>
sntp: Permission denied<BR>
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Daniel J McDonald, CISSP # 78281<BR>
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