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Re: need help with ntpd

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From: Gjalt de Jong AIO
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1991 07:40
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on Wed, 20 Mar 91 08:10:51 HST,
bob@kahala.soest.hawaii.edu (Bob Cunningham) said:


> Alliant machines have strange Unix kernels due to their multiprocessing
> configurations (two different types of cpus; an FX machine can have
> several of each).  In brief, ntpd from the ntp.3.4 distribution just
> doesn't work (nor ntpd from any previous distribution).  Nor xntpd.  A
> couple of years ago I tried digging in and trying to find out why, but
> finally gave up after exhausting my (admittedly meager) knowledge of
> the unique internels of the Alliant kernels.

> The only good news I have for you is that "ntpdate" (from the xntp
> distribution) apparently works just fine.  I've been running that on

How strange. We have xntpd running on our Alliant FX/8 without any problems.
No compilation problems and it also runs fine.
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