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Matthew Roberts - Tue, 2012/12/11 - 21:40

I've checked out this thread: http://www.turnkeylinux.org/forum/support/20110128/easy-way-update-lates...

 

And added / check the firewall and still stuck at a dead end. The backups did work on this server for a while and just stopped randomly after a month.

 

I am getingthe issue with ntpdate from the post above.

 

Can anyone provide any insight to this?

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Matthew Roberts - Wed, 2012/12/12 - 19:14

Just wanted to update after digging around more.

 

For some reason I'm not able to use ntpdate -u pool.ntp.org which the tklbam-backup uses. 

I am able to ntpdate -u 0.pool.ntp.org or 1..2... etc even specific hostnames inside the pool. Is there anyway I can edit the backup script to use a different pool than "pool.ntp.org" ?

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Jeremy Davis - Wed, 2012/12/12 - 23:51

I doubt that the NTP server is hardcoded into TKLBAM. I imagine that it uses whatever NTP server that the server itself is set to use. So I'd try adjusting that. I don't know for sure but I would expect a config file in /etc - or maybe you can/need to reconfigure it with dpkg - something like 'dpkg-reconfigure ntp'...?

Failing that, perhaps not the best solution - but another fairly easy way to go would be to just add an entry to the /etc/hosts file to redirect the ntp lookup to what ever server you want.

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Matthew Roberts - Thu, 2012/12/13 - 00:47

Thanks for replying. I'm not too sure what the issue is, but when i run the backup it shows ntpdate -u pool.ntp.org. Either way we have about 7 turnkey linux servers and this is the only one suffering with this issue. I just mapped an entry in the host file for a temporary fix. I'll check more into configuring ntp again.

 

Thanks again Jeremy!

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