[plug] ntp and gnome2 time sync problem

[Grahame Bowland]

On Friday 18 October 2002 21:41, William Kenworthy wrote:
> Here's a weird one ... ntpd runs fine *until* I log into gnome2 ... then
> all servers show rejected until I log out, when ntp syncs up again.  The
> ntp config file works fine on two similar installs (gentoo/gnome2).
> ntpd is started during init as per usual, or via command line: results
> are the same.
>
> What mechanism can cause this?  Something gnome2 is changing on login?
> I have no error messages or useful info from ntpd or logs.

Do any 'lsof -i TCP' -- is gnome stealing the NTP port or something? AFAIK one 
of the panel applets can do this..

-grahame