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

Fri Jan 18 17:49:54 UTC 2013
Marcelo Roccasalva <marcelo-centos at irrigacion.gov.ar>

On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 1:39 PM, fred smith
<fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us> wrote:
>
> 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
[...]

After making sure ipv4 is correctly configured (!), try stopping ntpd
and execute "ntpdate -d 216.230.228.211". If it succedes, I'd look
into selinux issues ("setenforce 0" and restart ntpd [This won't solve
your problem, just pospone it to the next reboot!])

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Marcelo

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