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I am attempting to run xntp3 on an R4000 based MIPS box running
RISC/os 5, having previously had no trouble under RISC/os 4.51 with
R3000 boxes.

The main problem seems to be that (as documented only in the svr4 man
set from mips, and not the bsd43 man set) settimeofday ignores the
usecond part altogether.  To quote:
     The implementation of settimeofday ignores the tv_usec
     field of tp.  If the time needs to be set with better
     than one second accuracy, call settimeofday for the
     seconds and then adjtime for finer accuracy.

Now, what I have been trying to do is run ntpdate at startup to get
things roughly correct, and then run xntpd with SLEWALWAYS defined.
This doesn't seem to be working at all well.  As far as I can tell
ntp.drift always contains 0.00000 and the time frequently seems to
slide as much as several seconds off.

I tried with tickadj at 5 and 40.

Is SLEWALWAYS known to work?  (I had a look at the code, but I don't
know enough about NTP.  It seems that ntp_unixclock.c ignores
attempted steps altogether, but ntp_loopfilter.c:localclock isn't
modified on SLEWALWAYS and tries to call step_systime anyway.)

Can anyone enlighten me?

Has anyone got this combination to work correctly?


I really need to get this working, as we will soon be upgrading one of
our main stratum 2 clocks to RISCos 5, and would rather not have to
close down the service and inconvenience people all over Europe.
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