William L. Maltby wrote: > On Fri, 2006-08-25 at 20:40 -0500, Robert wrote: > >> <snip> >> Now, the puzzling. This is an AMD Athlon XP 2600+ on an ASUS A7N8X >> deluxe ver 2.0 m/b. The symptom is that ntpd refuses to sync. >> > > Any SELINUX messages? Just these 6 lines in /var/log/messages each time the machine is booted: Aug 26 09:06:49 mavis kernel: SELinux: Initializing. Aug 26 09:06:49 mavis kernel: SELinux: Starting in permissive mode Aug 26 09:06:49 mavis kernel: selinux_register_security: Registering secondary module capability Aug 26 09:06:50 mavis kernel: SELinux: Registering netfilter hooks Aug 26 09:06:50 mavis kernel: SELinux: Disabled at runtime. Aug 26 09:06:50 mavis kernel: SELinux: Unregistering netfilter hooks Which, I assume, is a result of: # cat /etc/selinux/config # This file controls the state of SELinux on the system. # SELINUX= can take one of these three values: # enforcing - SELinux security policy is enforced. # permissive - SELinux prints warnings instead of enforcing. # disabled - SELinux is fully disabled. SELINUX=disabled # SELINUXTYPE= type of policy in use. Possible values are: # targeted - Only targeted network daemons are protected. # strict - Full SELinux protection. SELINUXTYPE=targeted > On my old fall-back K6-III, I get SELINUX > messages. Haven't pursued them yet as I'm vacillating between putting > 4.3 + updates on an new EPOX I've built or trying to wait for 4.4. > > And other things. > > >> <snip> >> Yes. Always other things. I think I'll abandon this one for the time being and concentrate on a very nice box that a friend GAVE me last Monday. Maybe it will behave properly.