Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!cernvax!chx400!chx400!bernina!prl From: prl@iti.org (Peter Lamb) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.time.ntp Subject: Re: ntp & Sparcstation running 4.0.1 -- loss of sync Message-ID: Date: 11 Mar 91 06:13:05 GMT References: <91Mar9.133601pst.16910@alpha.xerox.com> <91Mar9.134952pst.3143@skylark.parc.xerox.com> Sender: news@bernina.ethz.ch (USENET News System) Distribution: inet Organization: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, CH Lines: 14 Nntp-Posting-Host: etzj-gw deering@parc.xerox.com (Steve Deering) writes: >If xntpd won't run on 4.0.x (is this known to be true?), Alan might still try >running tickadj as I described, before starting up ntpd. It just might work. We run xntpd on 4.0.3. Sun's clocks aren't wonderful, but we haven't had any major problem. We run `tickadj -A -s -q' at boot time. Peter Lamb (prl@iis.ethz.ch) -- Peter Lamb uucp: uunet!mcsun!ethz!prl eunet: prl@iis.ethz.ch Tel: +411 256 5241 Integrated Systems Laboratory ETH-Zentrum, 8092 Zurich