ntpq: write to ::1 failed: Operation not permitted

The other day I got a bug report about check_ntpmon, which was reporting UNKNOWN status back to Nagios even though everything seemed to be working fine. A bit of debugging revealed that it was receiving the message on standard error: ntpq: write...

Sun's NTP documentation

It seems in the merging of Oracle.com and Sun.com, Sun's blueprints site has disappeared from view.  A lot of it was very specific to Sun hardware & software, but it had much general applicability as well.  One of the treasures in their...