Package: ntpdate
I was Poking around in /var/log/syslog recently. I noticed that
there was no log entry for ntpdate. Investigating a little, I found
that /etc/init.d/ntpdate (alias /etc/rcS.d/S51ntpdate) is called
before syslogd gets started.
This is OK... The ntpdate call has to occur pretty early in the boot
process to avoid problems with time stepping backwards (or forwards
by large amounts) during the rest of the initialization processes.
The net result is that you would only see the ntpdate log entry if
you turned on bootlogd. So I turned on bootlogd, just to make sure
ntpdate was getting called properly. Lo and behold! Following a
reboot, there was no ntpdate entry visible in /var/log/boot.
The problem is that ntpdate is getting called with a "-s" option, but
syslogd isn't there to catch the log entries.
The attached patch fixes that.
I used "log_action_msg" instead of "log_action_begin_msg" because the
output of ntpdate is intended to stand alone on a line by itself, not
as part of a stream of text.
Enjoy!
Rick
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[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ diff -c /etc/init.d/ntpdate /tmp/ntpdate
*** /etc/init.d/ntpdate Wed Aug 9 08:52:47 2006
--- /tmp/ntpdate Tue Sep 19 17:06:08 2006
***************
*** 25,32 ****
case $1 in
start|force-reload)
! log_action_begin_msg "Running ntpdate to synchronize
clock"
! $PROG -b -s $NTPOPTIONS $NTPSERVERS
log_action_end_msg $?
;;
restart|try-restart|reload)
--- 25,34 ----
case $1 in
start|force-reload)
! # no -s option so output will go to console (and
bootlog if enabled) when starting up
! # this happens before syslogd is started, so no point
in sending it to (nonexistent) syslog
! log_action_msg "Running ntpdate to synchronize clock"
! $PROG -b $NTPOPTIONS $NTPSERVERS
log_action_end_msg $?
;;
restart|try-restart|reload)
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