[syslog-ng] NTPD (maybe others) not logging - No idea why...

[Balazs Scheidler]

On Wed, 2009-04-08 at 09:33 -0500, Charles Jennings wrote:
> Doesn't look like it - here is some more info:
> 
> Chkconfig --list
> 
> 	ntpd            0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off
> 6:off
> 
> /etc/crontab
> 
> 	01 * * * * root /usr/sbin/ntpd -q > /dev/null &
> 
> /etc/sysconfig/ntpd
> 
> 	# Drop root to id 'ntp:ntp' by default.
> 	OPTIONS="-u ntp:ntp -p /var/run/ntpd.pid"
> 
> 	# Set to 'yes' to sync hw clock after successful ntpdate
> 	SYNC_HWCLOCK=yes
> 
> 	# Additional options for ntpdate
> 	NTPDATE_OPTIONS=""
> 
> /etc/ntp.conf
> 
> 	restrict default kod nomodify notrap nopeer noquery
> 	restrict -6 default kod nomodify notrap nopeer noquery
> 
> 	restrict 127.0.0.1
> 	restrict -6 ::1
> 
> 	server time.nist.gov iburst
> 	server  127.127.1.0
> 	fudge   127.127.1.0 stratum 10
> 
> 
> 	driftfile /var/lib/ntp/drift
> 
> 	keys /etc/ntp/keys

Hmm.. you could try to strace the ntpd process to see how it tries to
send log messages. It might use its own syslog() implementation instead
of relying on libc and thus fail because of a mismatching UNIX domain
socket type. (dgram vs. stream)

-- 
Bazsi