[70619] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ntp config tech note
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kevin Oberman)
Thu May 20 16:32:05 2004
To: Tony Li <tony.li@tony.li>
Cc: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>, nanog@nanog.org
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 20 May 2004 13:06:37 PDT."
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Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 13:21:46 -0700
From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> From: Tony Li <tony.li@tony.li>
> Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 13:06:37 -0700
> Sender: owner-nanog@merit.edu
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> One minor (operational! -- gasp) addition:
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> More modern copies of ntpd have a '-g' option that will allow
> the clock to jump once at boot time.
OK. Am I in a alternate universe? I have run ntpdate for years on a
variety of systems, almost all of the BSD family. (I count the VMS
implementation in TGV software as BSD.) I have never seen '-g' and have
always had '-b' as the boot option. I have confirmed the '-b' with the
official sources at Deleware.
--
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
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