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Subject: Re: Holy Cow! NTP works on AIX/370 (finally)...
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> Is that ntp or xntp?

Jeff (and all):

It's "ntp" - I looked at 'xntp' once, had problems with undefined
kernel values, and bagged it.  Maybe someday I'll get a reason
to go back and do another pass at xntp...

Anyhow, there's still a bug left in there someplace - on occasion,
somebody "forgets" and no adjtime() are done - I haven't traced out
whether ntp stops DOING it or if the kernel gets anti-social.
I usually notice it when the 'offset' gets up to 500ms or so, and
a 'kill -9 /etc/ntpd' and restarting it fixes it.  
This behavior has been there for quite some time - I just haven't
had the motivation to chase it down yet...

/Valdis