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[gentoo-user] sntp error in rc.log post OpenRC migration

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Tanstaafl

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Jun 4, 2011, 10:00:04 AM6/4/11
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Ok, finally took the plunge, and as everyone else said it was pretty
much anti-climactic...

However, I'm getting the following error when starting sntp that I
wasn't before in rc.log:

* Setting clock via the NTP client 'sntp' ...
4 Jun 09:34:15 sntp[1626]: Started sntp
4 Jun 09:34:15 sntp[1626]: kod_init_kod_db(): Cannot open KoD db file
/var/db/ntp-kod
4 Jun 09:34:15 sntp[1626]: Error looking up (A) no: Name or service not
known
4 Jun 09:34:15 sntp[1626]: Error looking up (A) -r: Name or service not
known
2011-06-04 09:34:15.356315 (+0500) -0.010584 +/- 0.038147 secs
2011-06-04 09:34:15.403387 (+0500) -0.0013 +/- 0.000488 secs
2011-06-04 09:34:15.436536 (+0500) -0.006587 +/- 0.026062 secs
[ ok ]

Googling the first line of the error:

kod_init_kod_db(): Cannot open KoD db file /var/db/ntp-kod

did come up with this 6 month old bug:

https://bugs.ntp.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1681

Is there something I need to do to fix this, or is this a
cosmetic/logging bug that will iron itself out with a later update?

Thanks guys (and gals)...

Indi

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Jun 4, 2011, 10:10:01 AM6/4/11
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Using ntp-client here, works just fine.

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Tanstaafl

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Jun 4, 2011, 10:50:02 AM6/4/11
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On 2011-06-04 10:02 AM, Indi wrote:
> Using ntp-client here, works just fine.

Hmmm... what runlevel do you have ntdp set to? Mine is 'default'...

Tanstaafl

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Jun 5, 2011, 11:30:01 AM6/5/11
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Ok, I used to get notifications in the logs about ntp syncing
occasionally, letting me know it is doing its thing, but I haven't seen
one since the OpenRC migration... and because of the below error, I'm
concerned that it may not be working properly...

Anyone? Did ntp/sntp change how it logs things? Or is this possibly due
to my /var partition not being mounted yet (its on an lvm partition)
when sntp tries to start?

It appears to be running, but like I said, I haven't seen anything in
the logs about a time sync event since I rebooted yesterday after
migrating to OpenRC:

myhost : Sat Jun 04, 10:53:24 : ~
# ps aux | grep ntp
root 457 0.0 0.0 8036 580 pts/3 R+ 10:53 0:00 grep
--colour=auto ntp
ntp 1802 0.0 0.0 36260 1600 ? Ss 09:34 0:00
/usr/sbin/ntpd -p /var/run/ntpd.pid -u ntp:ntp
myhost : Sat Jun 04, 10:53:54 : ~
#

myhost : Sat Jun 04, 15:18:57 : ~
# grep stratum /var/log/messages
myhost : Sun Jun 05, 11:04:24 : ~
#

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