[OmniOS-discuss] NTP Service error

Andy Fiddaman omnios at citrus-it.net
Thu Jan 25 07:28:23 UTC 2018


On Wed, 24 Jan 2018, Software Information wrote:

; Hi All
; Today I made the switch updating my r151020 box to omniosce in production
; and I am now left with just two issues.
;
; ntp won't start on one zone. All the dependent services are online.
;
; The log says:
; [ Jan 24 19:04:50 Method "start" exited with status 96. ]
; [ Jan 24 19:49:39 Enabled. ]
; [ Jan 24 19:49:40 Executing start method ("/lib/svc/method/ntp start"). ]
; [ Jan 24 19:49:40 svc.startd could not set context for method:  ]
; setppriv: Not owner

To run NTP in a zone, the zone needs the sys_time privilege. Is that
still present in the zone config?

# zonecfg -z ntp0 info | grep limitpriv
limitpriv: default,proc_priocntl,sys_time

I can't think why it would have gone away during an upgrade but it's
the first thing to check.

Regards,

Andy
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