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- From: ben@osiris.usi.utah.edu (Ben Pratt)
- Subject: Re: NTP on RS/6000 - anyone got it working
- Message-ID: <1992Sep3.032438.25787@fcom.cc.utah.edu>
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- Organization: Utah Supercomputing Institute
- References: <1992Aug26.010304.2081@portal.hq.videocart.com> <1992Aug26.192910.22056@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>
- Date: Thu, 3 Sep 92 03:24:38 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug26.192910.22056@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>
- mycroft@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum) writes:
- > >
- > > "ntp" works. However, ntpd exits with an alarm call.
- > >
- > > Is there some bizarreness with AIX that is needed to make this work?
- >
- > The only "bizarreness" is that AIX by default uses POSIX signals, which
- > need to be reset after each use. Link with `-lbsd' or turn off the
- > SA_OLDSTYLE flag and it should work.
-
- The other ``bizarrness'' is that the tickadj symbol doesn't exist in the
- AIX kernel, so you have to hack the code in xntpd.c to avoid a kernel
- name lookup and simply hardcode the setting...
-
- Ben
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