blathering about redhat ntp (was Re: [OpenAFS] Unable to authenticate to AFS ... )

[steve rader]

 > Btw, if you put the ip addr of ntp server(s) in
  /etc/ntp/step-tickers, stock rh7.2 ntp will automagically
 > correct the time (even on systems with badly skewed clocks)
 > at boot via ntpdate.  Refer to /etc/rc.d/init.d/ntpd.

...more details about afs + ntpd under redhat, fwiw...

1) add -nosettime to the OPTIONS variable in /etc/sysconfig/afs so
afs doesn't adjust the system clock

2) get ntpd to start at boot redhat-style by changing about the
fifth line of /etc/rc.d/init.d/afs from

   chkconfig: - 26 74

 to 

   chkconfig: 345 26 74

 and then doing

   chkconfig --del ntpd
   chkconfig --add ntpd

3) restart afs so afs isn't doing ntp and start vanilla ntp

  /etc/rc.d/init.d/afs stop
  /etc/rc.d/init.d/ntpd start
  /etc/rc.d/init.d/afs start

steve
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