Bug 430968

Summary:	ntp doesn't remember to start
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 11.0	Reporter:	Caleb Cushing <xenoterracide>
Component:	YaST2	Assignee:	Peter Varkoly <varkoly>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID	QA Contact:	Jiri Srain <jsrain>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	Final
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	Other
OS:	Other
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Found By:	---	Services Priority:
Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
Marketing QA Status:	---	IT Deployment:	---
Attachments:	/var/log/boot.msg

Description Caleb Cushing 2008-09-30 16:45:04 UTC

in yast -> system services  shows that ntp is enabled however every startup I have to shell in and do an /etc/init.d/ntp start because it doesn't start. I don't see that it's even tried to start.

Comment 1 Robert Vojcik 2008-10-02 14:18:28 UTC

Hello, 

could you provide /var/log/boot.msg and output of "ls -l /etc/init.d | grep ntp"

Thanks

Comment 2 Caleb Cushing 2008-10-02 14:44:53 UTC

Created attachment 243110 [details]
/var/log/boot.msg

ls -l /etc/init.d | grep ntp
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  5931 Jun  6 18:53 ntp

Comment 3 Caleb Cushing 2008-10-02 14:45:47 UTC

Comment 4 Peter Varkoly 2008-10-06 06:43:09 UTC

The ntp daemon will be started fine:
ntpd: time set -10779.743894s
Starting network time protocol daemon (NTPD)done
Do not forget, that normally ntpd exits if the offset exceeds the sanity limit, which is 1000 s by default. By starting the ntpd the this is more then 10000.
ntpd will be started with -g. This option overrides the limit and allows the time to be set to any value without restriction; however, this can happen only once. 

You have to optimize your server with minpoll and maxpoll paramters.
See man ntp.conf.