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Solaris 10 (05/09) xNTPD Startup Failure - How to Fix

Dear All,

I installed the Solaris 2.10 (05/09) download on a Sparc platform, and wanted to configure the network time protocol daemon (xNTPD) to work as an NTP client.

Of course there are many web sites that trumpet the advise to simply copy the ntp.client file to the ntp.conf file, and then issue the svcadm enable ntp command. However, after careful study, it was determined that this command HAD NO EFFECT. Specifically, when you issue the command svcs ntp, the following text is displayed:

# svcs ntp
STATE STIME FMRI
online 10:25:59 svc:/network/ntp:default

But if you request a process list and search for ntp, nothing is returned:

# ps -ef | grep ntp
#

Further examination reveals that the logfile for the ntp service:

/var/svc/log/network-ntp:default.log

Contains the following errors:

[ Sep 11 20:47:31 Enabled. ]
[ Sep 11 20:47:31 Method property group 'start' is not present. ]
[ Sep 11 20:48:56 Stopping because service disabled. ]
[ Sep 11 20:48:56 Method property group 'stop' is not present. ]
[ Sep 11 20:49:11 Enabled. ]

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ROOT CAUSE ANALYSIS
==================

Studying these sites:

MISAMAP JAVA: Config VNC server OpenSolaris

and

http://learningsolaris.com/docs/t-sm...-june-2005.pdf

The documentation contained in the second post provided a discussion of the Solaris Service Management Facility - the functionality that Sun developed to replace Inet.d.

Digging into the examples provided within this document, it was determined that the configuration of the SMF in regards to the xNTPD was incomplete/corrupted. This is significant because, as I stated in the opening paragraph, this was a brand new installation of Solaris on a Sparc Platform. So, in other words, we have a bug.

To enable SMF to correctly manage NTP, the following code was added to the SVC:/network/ntp:default script configuration for the ntp daemon:

(see absolute page 20 of the t-smf-devday-june-2005.pdf file)

start framework
start/exec astring /usr/lib/inet/xntpd
start/type astring method
refresh framework
refresh/exec astring /usr/lib/inet/xntpd
refresh/type astring method

After adding these lines to the configuration, the startup command sequence now works correctly:

svcadm refresh ntp
svcadm restart ntp

And a process list now shows the ntp daemon running correctly:

# ps -ef | grep ntp
root 2412 2105 0 10:54:24 pts/2 0:00 grep ntp
root 2358 1 0 10:25:59 ? 0:00 /usr/lib/inet/xntpd
#

***

QUESTION
For those of you that are highly knowledgeable in Solaris, can you please tell me whether or not I added all/correct variables to the SMF configuration? It works, yes, but is this the *correct* configuration? I have studied some of the other SMF configurations, but I was unsure reading them if this was correct.

Please advise.

THANK YOU!

Regards,
iic1tls

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ntp-wait

ntp-wait(1)							   User Commands						       ntp-wait(1)

NAME

       ntp-wait - Wait for ntpd to stabilize the system clock

SYNOPSIS

       ntp-wait [-flags] [-flag [value]] [--option-name[[=| ]value]]

       All arguments must be options.

DESCRIPTION

       ntp-wait will send at most num-tries queries to ntpd(8), sleeping for secs-between-tries after each status return that says ntpd(8) has not
       yet produced a synchronized and stable system clock.

       ntp-wait will do this quietly, unless the -v flag is provided.  This can be useful at boot time, to delay the  boot  sequence  until  after
       ntpd -g has set the time.

OPTIONS

       -n number, --tries=number
	      Number of times to check ntpd.  This option takes an integer number as its argument.  The default number for this option is:
		   100

		      The maximum number of times we will check ntpd to see if
		      it has been able to synchronize and stabilize the system clock.

       -s secs-between-tries, --sleep=secs-between-tries
	      How  long  to  sleep  between  tries.  This option takes an integer number as its argument.  The default secs-between-tries for this
	      option is:
		   6

		      We will sleep for secs-between-tries after each query
		      of ntpd that returns "the time is not yet stable".

       -v, --verbose
	      Be verbose.

		      By default, ntp-wait is silent.
		      With this option, ntp-wait will provide status information.

       -?, --help
	      Display usage information and exit.

       -!, --more-help
	      Pass the extended usage information through a pager.

       -v [{v|c|n --version [{v|c|n}]}]
	      Output version of program and exit.  The default mode is `v', a simple version.  The `c' mode will print copyright  information  and
	      `n' will print the full copyright notice.

EXIT STATUS

       One of the following exit values will be returned:

       0  (EXIT_SUCCESS)
	      Successful program execution.

       1  (EXIT_FAILURE)
	      The operation failed or the command syntax was not valid.

       70  (EX_SOFTWARE)
	      libopts had an internal operational error.  Please report it to autogen-users@lists.sourceforge.net.  Thank you.

AUTHORS

       Harlan Stenn

NOTES

       This document corresponds to version 4.2.8p13 of NTP.

       This manual page was AutoGen-erated from the ntp-wait option definitions.

ntp (4.2.8p13)							    20 Feb 2019 						       ntp-wait(1)

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