[CentOS] new errors in /var/log/messages since update to 5.9

Fri Jan 18 16:39:49 UTC 2013
fred smith <fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us>

On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 09:06:32AM -0600, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> On 01/17/2013 11:02 PM, fred smith wrote:
> > since updating to 5.9 a little while ago I find a load of these in
> > /var/log/messages, which I've not seen before:
> >
> > Jan 17 22:17:18 fcshome ntpd[4680]: sendto(216.230.228.211) (fd=22): Invalid argument
> > Jan 17 22:17:20 fcshome ntpd[4680]: sendto(199.4.29.166) (fd=22): Invalid argument
> > Jan 17 22:17:31 fcshome ntpd[4680]: sendto(129.70.132.37) (fd=22): Invalid argument
> > Jan 17 22:34:22 fcshome ntpd[4680]: sendto(216.230.228.211) (fd=22): Invalid argument
> > Jan 17 22:34:23 fcshome ntpd[4680]: sendto(199.4.29.166) (fd=22): Invalid argument
> > Jan 17 22:34:37 fcshome ntpd[4680]: sendto(129.70.132.37) (fd=22): Invalid argument
> > Jan 17 22:51:26 fcshome ntpd[4680]: sendto(199.4.29.166) (fd=22): Invalid argument
> > Jan 17 22:51:28 fcshome ntpd[4680]: sendto(216.230.228.211) (fd=22): Invalid argument
> > Jan 17 22:51:41 fcshome ntpd[4680]: sendto(129.70.132.37) (fd=22): Invalid argument
> > Jan 17 23:08:32 fcshome ntpd[4680]: sendto(199.4.29.166) (fd=22): Invalid argument
> > Jan 17 23:08:33 fcshome ntpd[4680]: sendto(216.230.228.211) (fd=22): Invalid argument
> > Jan 17 23:08:46 fcshome ntpd[4680]: sendto(129.70.132.37) (fd=22): Invalid argument
> > Jan 17 23:25:35 fcshome ntpd[4680]: sendto(199.4.29.166) (fd=22): Invalid argument
> > Jan 17 23:25:36 fcshome ntpd[4680]: sendto(216.230.228.211) (fd=22): Invalid argument
> > Jan 17 23:25:49 fcshome ntpd[4680]: sendto(129.70.132.37) (fd=22): Invalid argument
> > Jan 17 23:42:38 fcshome ntpd[4680]: sendto(199.4.29.166) (fd=22): Invalid argument
> > Jan 17 23:42:39 fcshome ntpd[4680]: sendto(216.230.228.211) (fd=22): Invalid argument
> > Jan 17 23:42:53 fcshome ntpd[4680]: sendto(129.70.132.37) (fd=22): Invalid argument
> >
> > Is ntp busted in 5.9?
> >
> > Clues appreciated, thanks!
> 
> Everything I see on this issue says to restart the ntpd service when
> this happens.  Does that help?

Johnny:

Dunno yet, just bounced it "/etc/rc.d/init.d/ntpd restart", so I'll watch
it for a while and see what happens.

Fred

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