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In article <Brpns5.7w@sounds.wa.com> BrianW@SoundS.WA.com writes:
>I would appreciate it if someone could send me a few pointers concerning setup  
>of NTP on the NeXT (I"m running System 2.2 on an isolated NeXTdimension with  
>SLIP and UUCP, but no ethernet connections).
>
>I have read the Man pages for ntp ntpd and ntpdc, but there is nothing in  
>NeXTadmin or NeXTanswers/92_spring about setting up NTP.

Your problem is not NTP, but the interaction between NTP and SLIP and
the lack of an ethernet. Early during the boot process the variable
NETWORKUP is set according to whether there is an ethernet connection
or not. Later on many network daemons are only started if NETWORKUP is
set to -YES-. Among these network daemons is ntpd. You can either
throw out that check in /etc/rc, or you can modify your SLIP startup
script to set NETWORKUP to -YES- when the SLIP connection is
established. That will also help other parts of the automatic system
configuration, but remember to startup up SLIP early during the boot
process to make certain that it is configured before the network
daemons are started.

>Is the solution as simple as adding a crontab.local entry for "/usr/etc/ntp -s  
>clock" as user root?  If so, then why is there a need for the ntpd daemon?  I  
>was able to run "/usr/etc/ntp clock" before the ntpd process was started.

Not a good idea.

        Carl Edman