edwardp Posted July 5, 2008 Author Report Share Posted July 5, 2008 Before seeing it in Mandriva, I didn't even know resolvconf existed. When I used SuSE before, unless the network was really down, NTP worked first time every time. If their distro included resolvconf, perhaps it was off by default. Given this, maybe it should be off by default with Mandriva as well. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted July 5, 2008 Report Share Posted July 5, 2008 Seems a bit weird resolvconf should be doing something with NTP, will have to look into this. I've seen it screw around altering my /etc/resolv.conf before now - but then thought that was what it was meant to do - just screw around with resolv.conf :D In all honesty, resolvconf sounds like a complete waste of time and shouldn't exist. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edwardp Posted July 5, 2008 Author Report Share Posted July 5, 2008 I looked at /etc/resolv.conf to see if there was a problem with it, but the information in it, was found to be correct. Since resolvconf will change this file, I wonder if perhaps ntpdate was trying to access resolv.conf at the exact same time that resolvconf was, hence the ntpdate errors about being unable to resolve the hostname? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted July 5, 2008 Report Share Posted July 5, 2008 ntpdate shouldn't have a reason to access /etc/resolv.conf - but I know that resolvconf does as I seen it on Mandriva 2008.0 on a server install that was bugging me when the DNS entries were being reset. I did leave resolvconf but found a way to disable it through config files. However, I could remove the package completely but for now it's not affecting me, or the client who's server it is :) Your ntpdate problem is that ntpd was running, and hence why ntpdate couldn't run. You use either one or the other - for me even if ntpd wasn't running ntpdate complained - so I just never used it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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