On Wed, 2006-05-24 at 13:26 -0400, Sam Drinkard wrote: > Robert wrote: > > > Sam Drinkard wrote: > > > > <snip> > > > >> Will, > >> > >> Everything has worked correctly in the past, and I have not made > >> any changes to the config files, nor dns, which is not a caching > >> server. A little bit more info.. somehow, the machine on which I'm > >> having this issue is i386, where the machine here at home is x86-64. > >> It works as advertized. I copied all the config files over and > >> deleted the first entry from the hosts, which on the local machine > >> pointed to the remote machine. Other than that, they both are > >> identical now. If, when executing either command, I enter "host > >> vortex.wa4phy.net" then I get normal behavior. Somehow, it is not > >> setting the default host, or a default host. I'm totally at a loss > >> to explain unless there are some diffs between the two arch's. > >> > >> Sam > >> > >>> > >>> > > Sam, just for grins, why don't you try replacing host names with IP > > addresses in your /etc/ntp.conf (after copying the original somewhere > > safe!), issue a > > #service ntpd restart > > and see what that does. Another thought: If you have a single-core > > processor accidentally running an smp kernel, ntpd will never > > stabilize. At least, that's the way it works on this AMD Athlon I'm > > using right now. > > > Will, > > I reverted back to the original configuration, and in the process, > looked at the system-config-services. I'm seeing with the ntpd service > stopped, but the subsys is locked. Folks often forget this ls /var/lock/subsys should have an ntpd file. > There was a pid file, but removed > it. I can try ip's but they recommend using hostnames for most places > due to the fact that IP's might change (a lot of the gov't servers are > like that). I'm still dorking around trying to find what is exactly > locked -- what subsys ? Anyhow, the machine does not run the smp > kernel, but the machine here IS smp and runs the smp kernel. I'm just > baffled why with identical config files, I still get the service not > known message. Weird...... > > Sam > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- Bill -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20060524/57368f9a/attachment-0004.sig>