[20206] in Athena Bugs
Re: LIDS Athena Cluster
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Garry Zacheiss)
Fri Mar 1 04:10:33 2002
Message-Id: <200203010910.EAA04355@brad-majors.mit.edu>
To: "Petr M. Swedock" <petr@MIT.EDU>
cc: zacheiss@MIT.EDU, bugs@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 28 Feb 2002 20:26:35 EST."
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Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2002 04:10:31 -0500
From: Garry Zacheiss <zacheiss@MIT.EDU>
>> Yes, I see. I'm at a loss to explain the multiple, repeated, 'time
>> sync' errors in /var/adm/messages... I've seen them in a bunch (haven't
>> looked at all) of the machines in my cluster.
Could you tell us what type of machine and what subnet you're seeing
it on, as well as the exact text of the error from /var/adm/messages?
There have been some problems with machines doing ntp sync all through
the 9.0 release, although I thought they were mostly cleaned up.
I wouldn't worry about it too much, since even if ntp isn't time
syncing, /etc/athena/gettime is run from cron twice daily to set the
time, and AFS will also reset the machine's time if it gets too far out
of sync. If there are still remaining NTP problems, it's something we
should look into, but I wouldn't expect machines to be active losing
because they're more than 5 minutes off from kerberos's clock.
Garry
