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Article #956Re: Problem with xntp 1.3 on Suns
From: Marc Ph. A. J. St.-Gil
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1991 22:50
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1991 22:50
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net@opal.cs.tu-berlin.de (Oliver Laumann) writes:
>I have installed xntp 1.3 in our network of Sun-3s and Sun-4s running
>SunOS 4.1 and 4.1.1. On some of the machines xntpd prints
> xntpd: Previous time adjustment didn't complete
>about once or twice each day, i.e. the old time delta returned by adjtime()
>is non-zero. Is this normal, or should I worry about it? Has anybody
>else experienced this?
>Thanks,
>--
>Oliver Laumann net@tub.cs.tu-berlin.de net@tub.UUCP net@tub.BITNET
We solved this by using "tickadj -s -A" before invoking xntp in our rc.local.
The important thing being that -s causes dosynctodr to be turned off in the
kernel.
--
Marc St.-Gil, UNIX Systems Administrator mstgil@{sol,vaxa,vaxb}.acs.unt.edu
University of North Texas 817/565-2324 mstgil@{ponder,solo}.csci.unt.edu
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PO Box 13495, Denton TX, 76203 going to say that.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sol.acs.unt.edu!mstgil From: mstgil@sol.acs.unt.edu (Marc Ph. A. J. St.-Gil) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.time.ntp Subject: Re: Problem with xntp 1.3 on Suns Message-ID: <1991Jun20.225047.16020@sol.acs.unt.edu> Date: 20 Jun 91 22:50:47 GMT References: <3834@kraftbus.cs.tu-berlin.de> Reply-To: mstgil@sol.acs.unt.edu Organization: University of North Texas Lines: 22