What is the name of the ntpd process?

[carlos123]

I am having trouble restarting ntpd to automatically go out over the Internet and get the time for me.

When I try to restart the prcess through Gentoo I am told that it cannot be stopped. When I try and find it through top or another process listing utility I see nothing titled "ntpd".

Does anyone know what the name of the process for ntp daemon is?

Thanks.

Carlos

[GoldenEye]

Hi,

That is the name of the daemon, ntpd (Network Time Protocol Daemon).

Maybe you don't have it installed.

Try to do service ntpd status or /etc/init.d/ntpd status. With Suse you can use Yast to get it working as far as I can remember.

Let us know what you get...

[kkubasik]

emerge nptd

see what happends.

[carlos123]

Take a look at the following....

root@pine - /home/carlos
> /etc/init.d/ntpd status
* status: started
root@pine - /home/carlos
> /etc/init.d/ntpd restart
* Stopping ntpd...
* Failed to stop ntpd [ !! ]

root@pine - /home/carlos
> ps ntpd
PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND
root@pine - /home/carlos

If I search for a process called "ntpd" by opening up the KDE System guard and listing all processes there is no such process. The closest one is called "nscd" which has nothing to do with ntpd.

Any further suggestions would be much appreciated.

Carllos

[carlos123]

This is really weird...

root@pine - /home/carlos
> emerge -s ntpd
Searching...
[ Results for search key : ntpd ]
[ Applications found : 1 ]

* net-misc/openntpd
Latest version available: 20040719p
Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
Size of downloaded files: 102 kB
Homepage: http://www.openntpd.org/
Description: Lightweight NTP server ported from OpenBSD
License: BSD

It's like ntpd is there but not there.

If I do an "emerge -up ntpd" Gentoo finds absolutely nothing to satisfy such a command.

Carlos

[kkubasik]

try just installing it, make a backup of your config file for it, then let her rip.

[carlos123]

Thanks very much for your all's input. I went ahead and re-emerged it and things seem to be working okay now.

Apparently some parts of the ntp program (which runs the ntp daemon) had changed and when I did the last update of the Gentoo distribution I did not update the ntp program. Causing some weird programs.

Thanks again. Much appreciated.

Carlos