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- From: scotth@hoshi.corp.sgi.com (Scott Henry)
- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.time.ntp
- Subject: Re: Time synchronization on lots of SGI Indigos
- Message-ID: <SCOTTH.92Sep11092826@hoshi.corp.sgi.com>
- Date: 11 Sep 92 14:28:26 GMT
- References: <1992Sep10.233120.22639@umbc3.umbc.edu>
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- Organization: Silicon Graphics Inc, Mountain View, CA
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- In-Reply-To: paulr@umbc4.umbc.edu's message of 10 Sep 92 23: 31:20 GMT
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- >>>>> In article <1992Sep10.233120.22639@umbc3.umbc.edu>, paulr@umbc4.umbc.edu (Paul Riddle) writes:
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- paulr> I would like to use xntpd for time synchronization on several labs of
- paulr> SGI Indigos. There are a total of 115 machines. I have built and
- paulr> tested xntpd successfully, but it doesn't include kernel support for
- paulr> setting tickadj on the Indigo. I have tried tweaking tickadj by hand,
- paulr> but no matter what I do it generates large volumes of syslog messages
- paulr> saying that it is stepping the clock backwards (one every couple of
- paulr> minutes).
- ...
- paulr> So, my basic question is: has anyone gotten xntpd to work well on an
- paulr> Indigo? If so, how did you do it?
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- I've ported xntp to the IRIS, and have made patches and a tar file of
- binaries available for anonymous FTP from sgigate.sgi.com
- (192.82.208.1) in the directory ~ftp/net-services/xntp. It is being
- used extensively (though far from universally) within SGI for time
- synchronization.
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- obligatory disclaimer: placing this software out for anonymous FTP
- does not in any way imply official support, blah, blah, blah. However,
- I'm interested in any bugs or problems you may find to improve the port.
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