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- From: wollman@trantor.emba.uvm.edu (Garrett Wollman)
- Subject: Re: XNTP3
- Message-ID: <1992Jul30.202617.7179@uvm.edu>
- Sender: news@uvm.edu
- Organization: University of Vermont, EMBA Computer Facility
- References: <9207301948.AA02844@Orchid.XAIT.Xerox.COM>
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- Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 20:26:17 GMT
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- In article <9207301948.AA02844@Orchid.XAIT.Xerox.COM> alex@XAIT.XEROX.COM (Alexis Layton) writes:
-
- >I am about to try xntp3 on a Sparcstation 2 running off a moderately
- >busy ethernet connected to the rest of the world (NEARnet) via a 9.6kbps
- >link (sigh). There is no local clock. Under these conditions
-
- Well, I'm currently running xntp3 on an AT&T 6386E/20 WGS (running
- Jolitz 386BSD), and it seems to work just fine over my 9.6 SLIP
- connection. Here's what it currently thinks:
-
- remote refid st when poll reach delay offset disp
- =========================================================================
- +sadye.emba.uvm. BITSY.MIT.EDU 2 14 256 377 170.0 -2.47 18.5
- *newton.emba.uvm BITSY.MIT.EDU 2 79 256 377 169.9 -3.05 22.7
- -uvm-gen.emba.uv hermes.chpc.ute 2 164 256 377 179.9 -37.04 24.1
- +kira.emba.uvm.e BITSY.MIT.EDU 2 157 256 377 169.9 -1.33 25.4
- -noc.near.net umd1.umd.edu 2 103 256 377 189.5 -25.17 22.1
-
- Half an hour ago, the synch.peer was noc.near.net, which is quite a
- distance away; it's nice to see that it devided our local systems are
- good enough for it now.
-
- It seems to be working fairly well, even though this machine's clock
- isn't all that great (drift is -58.78329) and tickadj is non-optimal.
-
- Here are some suggested configuration options:
-
- - Let me specify the name of the kernel. My kernel is called /386bsd,
- not /vmunix or /unix.
-
- - Completely disconnect from the tty. When my /etc/rc exits, init
- kills anything which is still attached to the console, so I have to do
- a `nohup /usr/local/etc/xntpd >&/dev/null' to make things work.
-
- - Write the daemon's PID somewhere. All the standard Net/2 daemons(*)
- write a file called `/var/run/<name>.pid' which lists the PID of the
- daemon; this makes it much easier to kill and restart them if need be.
-
- -GAWollman
-
- (*)Well, except sendmail and update...
-
- --
- Garrett A. Wollman = wollman@emba.uvm.edu = UVM is welcome to my opinions
- = uvm-gen!wollman =
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