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- From: earle@poseur.JPL.NASA.GOV (Greg Earle - Sun JPL on-site Software Support)
- Subject: Re: "Previous time adjustment didn't complete"
- Message-ID: <1992Jul28.085342.22367@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov>
- Followup-To: comp.protocols.time.ntp
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- Organization: Sun Microsystems - JPL on-site Software Support
- References: <9207221749.AA16906@repo.unipress.com>
- Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 08:53:42 GMT
- Lines: 26
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- In article <9207221749.AA16906@repo.unipress.com> schnitz@unipress.com (Ray Schnitzler) writes:
- >I seem to recall seeing comments on tuning xntp to eliminate "Previous time
- >adjustment didn't complete" messages, but I can't track them down.
- >Can someone help?
- >
- >I'm running xntp v2. I'm getting these messages on the Sun3 (SunOS 4.1) that
- >gets time from the Internet and serves it to our hosts.
-
- You need to set the "dosynctodr" kernel variable to 0 in your running kernel.
-
- Here's the end of my /etc/rc.local that does this:
-
- poseur:2:1498 % tail /etc/rc.local
-
- #
- # Network time daemon.
- #
- if [ -f /usr/local/etc/xntpd -a -f /etc/ntp.conf ]; then
- echo "dosynctodr/W 0" | adb -k -w /vmunix /dev/mem 2>&1 > /dev/null;
- echo "NTP daemon"
- fi
-
-
- - Greg Earle
- Sun Microsystems
-
-