Topic: Time server

[brian read]

I have just re-booted my 5.5 server, and got the following from the boot log:

Oct  9 10:41:31 server01 ntpd: Synchronizing with time server:
Oct  9 10:41:20 server01 ntpd:  succeeded
Oct  9 10:41:20 server01 ntpd: ^[[60G
Oct  9 10:41:20 server01 ntpd:
Oct  9 10:41:20 server01 ntpd: Starting ntpd:
Oct  9 10:41:20 server01 ntpd: ntpd startup failed
Oct  9 10:41:20 server01 ntpd: ^[[60G
Oct  9 10:41:20 server01 ntpd:
Oct  9 10:41:20 server01 rc: Starting ntpd:  failed

Why is trying to start ntpd 3 times?  I can ping the ISP time server ok.

This is what the messages log says:

Oct  9 10:41:31 server01 ntpd: Synchronizing with time server:
Oct  9 10:41:20 server01 ntpdate[768]: step time server 194.153.0.233 offset -12.092483 sec
Oct  9 10:41:20 server01 ntpd:  succeeded
Oct  9 10:41:20 server01 ntpd: ^[[60G
Oct  9 10:41:20 server01 ntpd:
Oct  9 10:41:20 server01 ntpd: Starting ntpd:
Oct  9 10:41:20 server01 ntpd: Failed to lookup user 'ntp'.
Oct  9 10:41:20 server01 ntpd: ntpd startup failed
Oct  9 10:41:20 server01 ntpd: ^[[60G
Oct  9 10:41:20 server01 ntpd:
Oct  9 10:41:20 server01 rc: Starting ntpd:  failed

Any ideas?

Cheers

Brian