On my Raspberry Pi which has been running for about 4 or 5 years now, I have a cron job running every hour that sets the time. I know form experience that my Pi has a tendency to drift its time quite a bit the longer it is running, so I found a script that resets it. It's been working perfectly for ages and suddenly it no longer works. The ntp.conf is here:
# /etc/ntp.conf, configuration for ntpd; see ntp.conf(5) for help driftfile /var/lib/ntp/ntp.drift # Enable this if you want statistics to be logged. #statsdir /var/log/ntpstats/ statistics loopstats peerstats clockstats filegen loopstats file loopstats type day enable filegen peerstats file peerstats type day enable filegen clockstats file clockstats type day enable # You do need to talk to an NTP server or two (or three). #server ntp.your-provider.example # pool.ntp.org maps to about 1000 low-stratum NTP servers. Your server will # pick a different set every time it starts up. Please consider joining the # pool: <http://www.pool.ntp.org/join.html> server 0.uk.pool.ntp.org iburst server 1.uk.pool.ntp.org iburst server 2.uk.pool.ntp.org iburst server 3.uk.pool.ntp.org iburst # Access control configuration; see /usr/share/doc/ntp-doc/html/accopt.html for # details. The web page <http://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Support/AccessRestrictions> # might also be helpful. # # Note that "restrict" applies to both servers and clients, so a configuration # that might be intended to block requests from certain clients could also end # up blocking replies from your own upstream servers. # By default, exchange time with everybody, but don't allow configuration. restrict -4 default kod notrap nomodify nopeer noquery restrict -6 default kod notrap nomodify nopeer noquery # Local users may interrogate the ntp server more closely. #restrict 127.0.0.1 #restrict ::1 # Clients from this (example!) subnet have unlimited access, but only if # cryptographically authenticated. #restrict 192.168.123.0 mask 255.255.255.0 notrust # If you want to provide time to your local subnet, change the next line. # (Again, the address is an example only.) #broadcast 192.168.123.255 # If you want to listen to time broadcasts on your local subnet, de-comment the # next lines. Please do this only if you trust everybody on the network! #disable auth #broadcastclient The cron job I have runs this script:
#! /bin/bash /etc/init.d/ntp stop ntpd -q -g /etc/init.d/ntp start Now, when this runs the ntp -q -g command I get this set of messages and it never exits:
14 Nov 05:43:23 ntpd[1577]: ntpd [email protected] Sat Mar 10 18:03:33 UTC 2018(1): Starting 14 Nov 05:43:23 ntpd[1577]: Command line: ntpd -q -g 14 Nov 05:43:23 ntpd[1577]: proto: precision = 3.000 usec (-18) restrict 0.0.0.0: KOD does nothing without LIMITED. 14 Nov 05:43:23 ntpd[1577]: restrict 0.0.0.0: KOD does nothing without LIMITED. restrict ::: KOD does nothing without LIMITED. 14 Nov 05:43:23 ntpd[1577]: restrict ::: KOD does nothing without LIMITED. 14 Nov 05:43:23 ntpd[1577]: Listen and drop on 0 v6wildcard [::]:123 14 Nov 05:43:23 ntpd[1577]: Listen and drop on 1 v4wildcard 0.0.0.0:123 14 Nov 05:43:23 ntpd[1577]: Listen normally on 2 lo 127.0.0.1:123 14 Nov 05:43:23 ntpd[1577]: Listen normally on 3 eth0 192.168.0.42:123 14 Nov 05:43:23 ntpd[1577]: Listen normally on 4 lo [::1]:123 14 Nov 05:43:23 ntpd[1577]: Listen normally on 5 eth0 [2a02:c7f:9665:6900:ba27:ebff:fe24:90a5]:123 14 Nov 05:43:23 ntpd[1577]: Listen normally on 6 eth0 [fd57:5132:3318:0:ba27:ebff:fe24:90a5]:123 14 Nov 05:43:23 ntpd[1577]: Listen normally on 7 eth0 [fe80::ba27:ebff:fe24:90a5%2]:123 14 Nov 05:43:23 ntpd[1577]: Listening on routing socket on fd #24 for interfaceupdates Any ideas? If I want the Pi clock to sync to a time server, what is the simplest way to do it?
tinker panicas the first line in ntp.conf... see the URL above.