[Go-essp-tech] NTP Server and ESG Installation Script

[david.terrett at stfc.ac.uk]

 /usr/sbin/ntpq -p

Prints 

/usr/sbin/ntpq: read: Connection refused

If ntp isn't running.

David


> -----Original Message-----
> From: go-essp-tech-bounces at ucar.edu [mailto:go-essp-tech-
> bounces at ucar.edu] On Behalf Of philip.kershaw at stfc.ac.uk
> Sent: 24 February 2010 17:18
> To: gavin at llnl.gov
> Cc: go-essp-tech at ucar.edu
> Subject: Re: [Go-essp-tech] NTP Server and ESG Installation Script
> 
> Hi Gavin,
> 
> > or are
> > you proposing simply checking that NTP is installed and/or running?
> 
> Yes some kind of sanity check would be good.  Could be difficult to
> specify though.
> 
> Thanks,
> Phil
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Gavin M Bell [mailto:gavin at llnl.gov]
> > Sent: 24 February 2010 17:00
> > To: Kershaw, Philip (STFC,RAL,SSTD)
> > Cc: go-essp-tech at ucar.edu
> > Subject: Re: NTP Server and ESG Installation Script
> >
> > Hi Philip,
> >
> > I can take a look at that.  Indeed NTP is a must for any distributed
> > system.  Most systems come with NTP so are you proposing
> configuration
> > modifications i.e. we all point to the same time clocks, which is
> kind
> > of moot with NTP as all roads lead to the master clock anyway,
> >
> >
> >
> > philip.kershaw at stfc.ac.uk wrote:
> > > Hi Gavin,
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Running security integration tests with Luca has highlighted the
> need
> > > for synchronisation of clocks on servers running security services.
> > If
> > > we don’t, errors are likely to occur with timestamp checks.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Is there a way that you can incorporate into the ESG installation
> > > scripts the setting of an NTP server(s) so that host clocks are
> > > synchronised?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > >
> > > Phil
> > >
> > >
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