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From: mosemann@sardion.unl.edu (Russell Mosemann)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.time.ntp
Subject: Re: Previous time adjustment didn't complete?
Keywords: Previous time adjustment complete
Message-ID: <1991Feb25.232209.26116@hoss.unl.edu>
Date: 25 Feb 91 23:22:09 GMT
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In <1991Feb25.201510.7422@hobbit.gandalf.ca> ddrg@hobbit.gandalf.ca (Duncan Glendinning) writes:

>In <1991Feb23.223034.13241@hoss.unl.edu> mosemann@sardion.unl.edu (Russell Mosemann) writes:

>>   I got three messages today like:

>>Feb 23 12:59:40 sardion xntpd[96]: Previous time adjustment didn't complete

>>   What was the explanation about why this happens?

[..]

>which turns off the kernel variable to disable the software clocks
>from synchronizing to the hardware clock:

>   # adb -k -w /vunix /dev/mem
>   dosynctodr/D
>   ./W0
>   ./D0
>   .?W 0
>   .?D 0
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   Hmmm.  That can't be it.  I put 'tickadj -Aqs' in my rc.local so that
the tick value is automagically calculated and changed, and the value of
dosynctodr is set to zero every time the system is rebooted.
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