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ntpd troubles
Moving server, having trouble. Found this. Seems to fix the windows client, not the linux one.
http://mail-index.netbsd.org/current-users/2004/01/16/0023.html
Subject: ntpd default change
To: None
From: Christos Zoulas
List: current-users
Date: 01/16/2004 17:56:40
Hello,
People who use windows ntp clients [and other unauthenticated clients] served by netbsd ntp servers will notice after upgrading ntpd to current their clients cannot sync anymore.
So that others don't spend time debugging this:
- Authentication in the new version of ntp is turned on by default;
you'll have to turn it off. The option to do this has also changed. If you had in your config file "authenticate no" should change it to "disable auth".
- "restrict notrust" means don't trust unauthenticated packets, so remove
notrust from your restrict line. This seemed to work fine before with "authenticate no".
Of course, you should only do this if you really need to. If your clients can authenticate, you should keep authentication on.
I hope this is useful,
christos
Using qmail in an RPM (or YUM) world...
I was trying to run 'yum update' on my webmail server, which runs the highly recommended qmailrocks.org distro. Well, to get it to stop trying to install exim / sendmail / postfix I was able to create a "fake_mta.spec" based on one I found online (but had to transcribe into a VM box):
# Use rpmbuild -bb to install this Buildarch: noarch Conflicts: sendmail, exim, postfix, qmail Group: Productivity/Networking/Email/Servers License: GPL Name: fake_mta Provides: smtp_daemon Release: 1adm Summary: Fake package to protect qmail's sendmail files. Version: 1 %description A fake package so that qmail won't get hosed, even tho RPM/YUM don't know about it. %changelog * Sun Sep 25 2005 Aaron D. Marasco - Shamelessly stolen from SuSE security list (Chris Mahmood) %files /usr/sbin/sendmail
