We are using suse-linux and we are not getting any error messages. we tried 1. adding ntp server in ntp.conf file and restarting xntpd
2. using ntpdate -u <ntpserver>
this also doesn't work .

In /var/log/ntp these are the following messages.



1 Apr 12:17:02 ntpd[26972]: sendto(10.188.0.21): Bad file descriptor
1 Apr 12:17:03 ntpd[26972]: sendto(10.188.0.20): Bad file descriptor
1 Apr 12:17:04 ntpd[26972]: sendto(10.188.0.21): Bad file descriptor
1 Apr 12:17:05 ntpd[26972]: sendto(10.188.0.20): Bad file descriptor
1 Apr 12:17:06 ntpd[26972]: sendto(10.188.0.21): Bad file descriptor
1 Apr 12:17:07 ntpd[26972]: sendto(10.188.0.20): Bad file descriptor
1 Apr 12:17:08 ntpd[26972]: sendto(10.188.0.21): Bad file descriptor
1 Apr 12:17:08 ntpd[26972]: ntpd exiting on signal 2
1 Apr 12:22:45 ntpd[24999]: no servers reachable
1 Apr 12:30:05 ntpd[24999]: synchronized to 10.188.0.20, stratum 3
1 Apr 12:33:13 ntpd[24999]: no servers reachable
1 Apr 12:40:47 ntpd[24999]: synchronized to 10.188.0.21, stratum 3
1 Apr 12:48:34 ntpd[24999]: synchronized to 10.188.0.20, stratum 3
1 Apr 12:48:38 ntpd[24999]: time reset +4.722232 s
1 Apr 12:49:27 ntpd[24999]: ntpd exiting on signal 15
1 Apr 12:50:45 ntpd[29152]: synchronized to 10.188.0.21, stratum 3
1 Apr 12:50:45 ntpd[29152]: kernel time sync disabled 0041
1 Apr 12:51:23 ntpd[29152]: ntpd exiting on signal 15
1 Apr 13:54:40 ntpd[29248]: synchronized to LOCAL(0), stratum 10
1 Apr 13:54:40 ntpd[29248]: kernel time sync disabled 0041
1 Apr 14:09:52 ntpd[29248]: kernel time sync enabled 0001