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- From: ak@ananke.stgt.sub.org (Andreas Kaiser)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
- Subject: NTP on RS/6000 - anyone got it working
- Distribution: world
- Message-ID: <715828755snx@ananke.stgt.sub.org>
- References: <1992Sep01.155314.17025@kronos.com>
- Date: Mon, 07 Sep 92 01:19:15 GMT
- Organization: ananke
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- In article <1992Sep01.155314.17025@kronos.com> richb@kronos.com writes:
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- > We've been running an experimental version on two of our RS/6000s for the
- > past couple of months. The University of Delaware is the maintainer of
- > NTP, and that's where I got this version. Their anonymous ftp server
- > no longer has the file I downloaded; I'm not sure which version to use.
- > There is a brand new distribution in udel.edu:/pub/ntp/xntp3.tar.Z, and
- > I'll bet that includes RS/6000 support: take a look there.
- >
- > In answer to your question, yes, there is a "bizarreness" about AIX
- > which requires special support.
-
- I found a file with this name of the local University. It is located in
- the AIX 3.2 directory, but I have some doubts about AIX 3.2 compliance,
- since the unixclock part requires the kernel variables "_tick" and
- "_tickadj", which aren't there (tick) or seem to have a different
- meaning (tickadj). Ok, I replaced the code by sysconf(...CLK_TCK) and a
- tickadj of 1usec (restimer says it's 256nsec). It now no longer exits
- immediately, but I've not get time synchronization yet.
-
- Can NTP be used to synchonize clocks without having a radio clock? NTP
- tells me the server has a level of 16, maybe the client refuses to
- synchronize to such a beast?
-
- I know that timed runs fine on AIX but we have some Intergraphs with
- NTP but without a timed and without a compiler.
-
- Gruss, Andreas
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