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- From: ianh@resmel.bhp.com.au (Ian Hoyle)
- Subject: Re: ntp v2 on SGI Irix 4.0.x
- Message-ID: <ianh.712017065@morgana>
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- Organization: BHP Research - Melbourne Laboratories, AUSTRALIA
- References: <1992Jul23.160745*Harald.Eikrem@delab.sintef.no>
- Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 22:31:05 GMT
- Lines: 35
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- Harald.Eikrem@delab.sintef.no writes:
-
- >Now, running ntpdate from cron on the Iris'es seemingly works on most
- >machines except one, which has Irix 4.0.4. The others are Irix 4.0.1 and
- >4.0.2. Have anyone else fiddled with ntp and Iris'es out there?
-
- Scott Henry of SGI has done a port of xntp v2. It is available using anon ftp
- on sgigate.sgi.com:
-
- ftp> pwd
- 257 "/net-services/xntp" is current directory.
- ftp> ls
- 200 PORT command successful.
- 150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for '/bin/ls'.
- total 820
- -rw-r--r-- 1 root sys 2999 May 5 16:17 README
- -rw-r--r-- 1 root sys 19592 May 5 16:17 xntp-sgi-patches.Z
- -rw-r--r-- 1 root sys 396531 May 5 16:17 xntp-sgi.tar.Z
- 226 Transfer complete.
-
- It works wonderfully - in fact I've had his version on my SGI's (Irix 3.3.2
- and now 4.0.1) for at least a year without a problem,
-
- ian
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