ntpdate fixes ?

Bill Hart bill.hart at burkecorp.com
Sat Feb 24 00:31:08 CET 2007


I'm running Hobbit on an FC6 box and had some problems in the past with
it giving me a core file and crashing out.  I did a fresh install with
the Feb 9 allinonepatch and it cleared up. 

Since then I've had 2 core files show up in the server directory.  Both
point to ntpdate as the culprit:

[hobbit at hobbit server]$ gdb ntpdate core.29335
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This GDB was configured as "i386-redhat-linux-gnu"...ntpdate: No such
file or directory.

Core was generated by `ntpdate -u -q -p 2 10.1.2.35 SED=/bin/sed
GREP=/bin/grep NETFAILTEXT=not OK BBD'.
Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault.
#0  0x008d4402 in ?? ()
(gdb) quit


Searching the archives revealed a thread in Sept. of last year talking
about changing the way hobbit dealt with time stuff.  When I run the
ntpdate command manually I get all sorts of interesting errors, but it's
acting like it is trying to find each of those entries as a server, so
I'm wondering if I should just be playing with the command to get it to
not send out errors ... if that would straighten out the core problems.


Bill Hart
Computer Support Supervisor

Burke Corporation

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