J.Crowcroft@cs.ucl.ac.uk (Jon Crowcroft) (03/21/91)
has anyone done an AIX/370 port of ntp (else i shall have to do one:-( thanks jon
whaley@elbo.ucs.ubc.ca (Paul Whaley) (03/28/91)
In article <1513@ucl-cs.uucp>, J.Crowcroft@cs.ucl.ac.uk (Jon Crowcroft) writes: |> |> |> has anyone done an AIX/370 port of ntp (else i shall have to do one:-( |> |> thanks |> |> jon There's not much point in trying until IBM fixes the bugs in adjtime. Both the unix ntp implementations (ntp from louie.udel.edu and xntp) compile fairly easily on AIX/370, but the errors in adjtime defeat the timekeeping - we had our clock 90 minutes slow at one point. While awaiting IBM's fix, we run ntpdate every hour. -- Paul Whaley | Internet: whaley@ucs.ubc.ca University Computing Services | Bitnet: USERWHAL@UBCMTSG University of British Columbia | Phone: (604)822-3976 Vancouver B.C. Canada V6T 1Z2 | Fax: (604)822-5116
rees@pisa.citi.umich.edu (Jim Rees) (03/29/91)
In article <1991Mar27.180231.1269@unixg.ubc.ca>, whaley@elbo.ucs.ubc.ca (Paul Whaley) writes:
There's not much point in trying until IBM fixes the bugs in adjtime. Both the
unix ntp implementations (ntp from louie.udel.edu and xntp) compile fairly
easily on AIX/370, but the errors in adjtime defeat the timekeeping - we had
our clock 90 minutes slow at one point. While awaiting IBM's fix, we run
ntpdate every hour.
We find that the clock on our 3090 is very stable, and once a day is plenty.
Don't forget to give ntpdate the '-b' flag. Also note that if you have
several AIX systems on a single machine with VM, each one keeps a separate
clock so each one needs ntpdate.