[Xymon] Ntpdate deprecated

[T.J. Yang]

In my test environment, ntp monitoring on centos-6.5 + xymon-4.3.13 works
fine.


tj


On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 8:57 AM, Root, Paul T <Paul.Root at centurylink.com>wrote:

>  That’s bad. It doesn’t appear to address the –q option of ntpdate.
>
>
>
> *From:* Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] *On Behalf Of *Daniel
> McDonald
> *Sent:* Friday, January 10, 2014 8:49 AM
> *To:* xymon at xymon.com
> *Subject:* [Xymon] Ntpdate deprecated
>
>
>
> Running xymon 4.3.13 on SuSe ES 11 SP 3, the ntp test isn’t working:
>
>
> *Fri Jan 10 08:21:02 2014 ntp ok *
>
> Service ntp on ns6.aelabad.net is OK (up)
>
>
> Command: ntpdate -u -q -p 2 10.1.9.51 2>&1
>
>        !!!!!!!!!!!!!!  WARNING !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>
> The ntpdate program is deprecated and should not be used any more.  To
> quote the upstream ntp developers:
>
>   "The functionality ntpdate offered is now provided by the ntpd daemon
>   itself.  If you call ntpd with the command line option -q it will
>   retrieve the current time and set it accordingly."
>
> Please check the Network Time Protocol (NTP) daemon man page and
>   http://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Dev/DeprecatingNtpdate
> for further information.
>
> You can replace the ntpdate call with "rcntp ntptimeset" to achieve an
> inital poll of the servers specified in /etc/ntp.conf.
>
> The program /usr/sbin/sntp offers comparable functionality to ntpdate.
> Specifically
>   sntp -P no -r pool.ntp.org
> is equivalent to
>   ntpdate pool.ntp.org
>
> For further details please refer to the man page of sntp.
> sntp: unable to write PID to /etc/sntp.pid
> sntp: Permission denied
>
>
>
> --
> Daniel J McDonald, CISSP # 78281
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