Originally posted by: shashiscreen

I am facing a issue with NTP in AIX5.3. I can able to configure and start NTP, but after sometime it will die itself.

I am configuring NTP as a client

ntp.conf

driftfile /etc/ntp.drift
tracefile /etc/ntp.trace
server my_ntp_server

rc.tcpip

start /usr/sbin/xntpd "$src_running" "-x"
whenever i start the xntpd manually, or whenever i reboot, the xntpd will start, but after 5 minutes, it will die itself.

I am not sure what log file i need to refer for troubleshooting this issue.

How can i troubleshoot this issue ?

Thanks.
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Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

I'd start with "man xntpd"
syslog, -D option ....
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Originally posted by: Juredd1

Sorry Delgado,

I was trying to say the same thing twice, I didn't even notice your suggestion "man xntpd". I just noticed the syslog suggestion.
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Originally posted by: Juredd1

This is from the man page for xntpd.

Note: When operating in a client mode running AIX 4.2.1 or later, the xntpd daemon will exit with an
error if no configured servers are within 1000 seconds of local system time. Use the date or ntpdate
command to set the time of a bad skewed system before starting xntpd.

Not sure if this is your problem but something to look at.

I have had problems where my client's time is off to much for ntp to correct and the xntpd daemon will die.
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Originally posted by: edgodd1

I would first run

ntpdate my_ntp_server
to verify that you can manually sync time up with the ntp server. If that works then you gotta dig deeper into xntpd with syslog as described.
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