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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> -----Original Message-----
> From: ldm-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:ldm-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Gerry Creager
> Sent: Sunday, August 02, 2009 17:52
> To: Gilbert Sebenste
> Cc: ldm-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 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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