ntpdate not working

bhoagland · Posted: Sun Oct 31, 2004 7:04 am Post subject: ntpdate not working

When I try to run ntpdate to sync the clock I get the following:

BobCamp · Posted: Mon Nov 01, 2004 1:55 am Post subject:

Stupid questions you probably already have checked:

1) can you ping time.nist.gov from the box with the problem?

2) do you have the same problem with other ntp servers?

3) are you runing anything like iptables that might block ntp?

bhoagland · Posted: Mon Nov 01, 2004 3:42 am Post subject:

1. Yes I can ping time.nist.gov

2. Yes it happens with other ntp servers I try

3. No I am not running iptables or anything else on the box. I haven't changed anything like that since it was working before

D $hady · n00b Joined: 20 Jul 2004 Posts: 3 Location: /home/USA/NH

I found a few other posts on Google with the same error messges.

Make sure you have the following line in /etc/services:

bhoagland · Posted: Mon Nov 01, 2004 6:13 am Post subject:

That was the problem. Since you mentioned /etc/services I now remember something strange going on when etc-update tried to update that file. It was completely blank so I guess etc-update choked.

Copied the services file from another box and now it works fine.

Thanks for the help!

Karl_R · Posted: Mon Jun 27, 2005 10:11 am Post subject:

Aye, thanks for the tip. I had exactly the same issue.

Any idea why /etc/services is now blank?
was it a security fix? ie turn them all off by default?

Anyway thanks, I'm going to search for /etc/service problems now :-)