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Re: sun4 [8.2.0]: time syncronization
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard Basch)
Wed Jun 3 23:00:02 1998
Date: Wed, 3 Jun 1998 22:59:22 -0400
To: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
Cc: "Richard Basch" <basch@lehman.com>, testers@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <199806031442.KAA17334@contents-vnder-pressvre.MIT.EDU>
From: "Richard Basch" <basch@lehman.com>
On Wed, 3-June-1998, "John Hawkinson" wrote to "Richard Basch, testers@MIT.EDU" saying:
> The <cough> <sputter> <wheeze> "recommended" fix appears to be to cmment out
> '#define KERNEL_PLL 1' from config.h after configure runs, though I'm sure
> something better can be done.
Actually, it is worse than that... At Lehman, I could not reliably get
NTP to work, even with this patch (I had applied that fix to no avail).
As I said, I even encountered some problems with Sun's NTP on some
systems, because the clock skews have increased. If NTP finds more than
a 1/2 second drift within 10 minutes, it doesn't try to keep the machine
in sync. I was actually seeing this occur.
However, I will say that Sun's NTP does seem to do the job, and
although there is a later version of xntp and ntp4 exists, it is at
least a relatively recent version of xntp.
Anyway, I am glad that I could be of some assistance in diagnosing the
problem.
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