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From: Mills@udel.edu
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Subject: [Nathan H. Hillery:  xntpd on convex/sgi/3090?]
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Date: 2 Jan 91 20:47:11 GMT
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Folks,

I can't help Nathan, since I am creatively allthumbs with respect
to Unix gurudom. Could somebody help? In response, I would be glad
to receive and archive reports of successful ports. It would be a
good idea anyway and help offload those of you who have been so
helpful in the past.

Dave

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From: "Nathan H. Hillery" <hillery@ncsc.org>
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To: mills@udel.edu
Subject: xntpd on convex/sgi/3090?


Sorry to bother you, but I was wondering if you knew of anyone
who has gotten xntpd to work on Convex's, SGI's, or IBM3090's.  

I have gotten the standard distribution to compile (with a minor
change since Convex's UNIX includes getopt() in libc), but it doesn't
seem to adjust the time at all.  I cannot get "tickadj -s" to run, since
there is no "dosynctodr" symbol.  I assume that this is the problem.
The system has an adjtime() system call and the variables "tick" and
"tickadj".

I have run into the same problem on our IBM3090 running AIX.  It doesn't
use any of the BSD-style names for the kernel time-keeping variables.

I haven't looked as much at our Silicon Graphics, but know (and have
heard from others) that standard xntpd won't work.  It appears to
have the kernel variable "tick", but nothing else.  It has something
called "timetrim" which may be like tickadj.

				Thanks for any information,
						Nate.
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