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

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

[Tanstaafl]

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)...

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

[Indi]

On Sat, Jun 04, 2011 at 09:47:20AM -0400, Tanstaafl wrote:
> 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)...
> 

Using ntp-client here, works just fine.

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

[Tanstaafl]

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'...

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

[Tanstaafl]

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 : ~
 #

On 2011-06-04 9:47 AM, Tanstaafl wrote:
> 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)...
>