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From: David Baron on 10 Jun 2010 13:00 I get these periodically through the day: Cron <root(a)dovidhalevi> /usr/sbin/ntpdate -s 216.200.93.8 (failed) From: Cron Daemon <root(a)dovidhalevi.homelinux.net> To: root(a)dovidhalevi.homelinux.net command failed with exit status 1 I have no cron running ntpdate that I know of and there is no ntpdate entry in anacrontab. I run it in an rc.local type script on bootup. Period. This run works. The only thing I can think of is an obsolete webmin entry but I have not run webmin for ages. This simply made cron scripts for me as far as I know and I have no ntpdate crons that I can find. Where else might I look? (I would remove or simply substitute ntpdate-debian.) There is no ntpd on my system. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201006101938.01635.d_baron(a)012.net.il
From: Celejar on 10 Jun 2010 13:30 On Thu, 10 Jun 2010 19:38:00 +0300 David Baron <d_baron(a)012.net.il> wrote: > I get these periodically through the day: > > Cron <root(a)dovidhalevi> /usr/sbin/ntpdate -s 216.200.93.8 (failed) > From: Cron Daemon <root(a)dovidhalevi.homelinux.net> > To: root(a)dovidhalevi.homelinux.net > > command failed with exit status 1 > > I have no cron running ntpdate that I know of and there is no ntpdate entry in > anacrontab. I run it in an rc.local type script on bootup. Period. This run > works. When you say that you have "no cron running ntpdate", where have you looked? Have you checked root's crontab, as well as those of other users on the system? Celejar -- foffl.sourceforge.net - Feeds OFFLine, an offline RSS/Atom aggregator mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via secure (OpenPGP) email ssuds.sourceforge.net - A Simple Sudoku Solver and Generator -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100610132805.fc13c17f.celejar(a)gmail.com
From: Aaron Toponce on 11 Jun 2010 09:50 On 06/10/2010 10:38 AM, David Baron wrote: > I get these periodically through the day: > > Cron <root(a)dovidhalevi> /usr/sbin/ntpdate -s 216.200.93.8 (failed) > From: Cron Daemon <root(a)dovidhalevi.homelinux.net> > To: root(a)dovidhalevi.homelinux.net > > command failed with exit status 1 Woah! Cron should NOT be running NTP. That defeats the whole purpose of NTP. NTP is designed to adjust your clock so it's more accurate. How can it do this if you're relying on your clock to run NTP? :) NTP adjusts your clock by querying other NTP servers of a higher stratum other than itself. So, the first thing I would do is rip that line out of cron, whether in be in root's crontab, or elsewhere. If you find an NTP script in any of the /etc/cron.* directories, I'd rip it out of there too. > I have no cron running ntpdate that I know of and there is no ntpdate entry in > anacrontab. I run it in an rc.local type script on bootup. Period. This run > works. > > The only thing I can think of is an obsolete webmin entry but I have not run > webmin for ages. This simply made cron scripts for me as far as I know and I > have no ntpdate crons that I can find. Where else might I look? /var/spool/cron/ is the first place I would look for cron enttries. They should be plain text files, so they're easy to grep through. Then I'd look for scripts in /etc/cron.*/ as already mentioned. > (I would remove or simply substitute ntpdate-debian.) > > There is no ntpd on my system. There are a few packages that Debian ships related to ntp. 'ntp', 'openntpd' and 'ntpdate'. Sounds like you have the latter installed. If either the ntp or openntpd packages are installed, you will get the NTP daemon installed, as well as all client utilities. FYI in that. -- . O . O . O . . O O . . . O . . . O . O O O . O . O O . . O O O O . O . . O O O O . O O O
From: David Baron on 12 Jun 2010 16:20 > > I have no cron running ntpdate that I know of and there is no ntpdate > > entry in anacrontab. I run it in an rc.local type script on bootup. > > Period. This run works. > > > > The only thing I can think of is an obsolete webmin entry but I have not > > run webmin for ages. This simply made cron scripts for me as far as I > > know and I have no ntpdate crons that I can find. Where else might I > > look? > > /var/spool/cron/ is the first place I would look for cron enttries. They > should be plain text files, so they're easy to grep through. Then I'd > look for scripts in /etc/cron.*/ as already mentioned. Yes, I have it in /var/spool/cron/root/crontab Where is the original? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201006122259.42427.d_baron(a)012.net.il
From: David Baron on 15 Jun 2010 12:10
On Saturday 12 June 2010 23:02:11 David Baron wrote: > > > I have no cron running ntpdate that I know of and there is no ntpdate > > > entry in anacrontab. I run it in an rc.local type script on bootup. > > > Period. This run works. > > > > > > The only thing I can think of is an obsolete webmin entry but I have > > > not run webmin for ages. This simply made cron scripts for me as far > > > as I know and I have no ntpdate crons that I can find. Where else > > > might I look? > > > > /var/spool/cron/ is the first place I would look for cron enttries. They > > should be plain text files, so they're easy to grep through. Then I'd > > look for scripts in /etc/cron.*/ as already mentioned. > > Yes, I have it in (correction) > /var/spool/cron/crontabs/root > > Where is the original? I still have been unable to find it. Removing the file on /var would accomplish nothing. Next bootup will have it back. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201006151842.03982.d_baron(a)012.net.il |