Re: [ldm-users] Minor bug in LDM 6.8.0: can't find ntpdate

• To: "Laws, Peter C." <plaws@xxxxxx>
• Subject: Re: [ldm-users] Minor bug in LDM 6.8.0: can't find ntpdate
• From: Gerry Creager <gerry.creager@xxxxxxxx>
• Date: Tue, 04 Aug 2009 15:45:53 -0500

MY mistake: terrapin is an Internet2 site that's down!  Sorry Steve!

gerry

Laws, Peter C. wrote:

Ideally, sites should have NTP running from boot so that time is always accurate.  If 
admins refuse accurate time <G> then the script should be modified to check to 
see if ntpd is running before invoking ntpdate (which will fail if ntpd is running 
anyway).

But yeah, don't ever assume cron has the right path.

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Sent: Sunday, August 02, 2009 17:52
To: Gilbert Sebenste
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Subject: Re: [ldm-users] Minor bug in LDM 6.8.0: can't find ntpdate


Gilbert Sebenste wrote:

On Sat, 1 Aug 2009, Gilbert Sebenste wrote:

I'm getting this message emailed to me from my root

account on every

machine I have LDM 6.8.0 on. Running the ldmadmin newlog command
manually yields no problems.

Couldn't invoke the ntpdate(1) utility, "ntpdate": No such file or
directory.  Set the value of the variable "$ntpdate" in the
configuration-file, /home/ldm/etc/ldmadmin-pl.conf, to the

pathname

of the ntpdate(1) utility.

You should either fix the problem (recommended) or disable
time-checking by setting the variable "$check_time" to 0 in the
configuration-file, /home/ldm/etc/ldmadmin-pl.conf, (not
recommended).

Turns out that the answer is that RHEL and CentOS don't

have paths for

/usr/sbin in their default .login or .bashrc files. Putting them in
there, or putting an absolute path into the ladmadmin-pl.conf entry
easily fixes the issue.

Otherwise, LDM 6.8.0 is working great.

Hmmm. Steve, I'd recommend adding the absolute path in the default
ldadmin-pl.conf.  I'll explain Tuesday.
gerry
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  • Re: [ldm-users] Minor bug in LDM 6.8.0: can't find ntpdate
    • From: Laws, Peter C.