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From: mstgil@sol.acs.unt.edu (Marc Ph. A. J. St.-Gil)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.time.ntp
Subject: Re: Problem with xntp 1.3 on Suns
Message-ID: <1991Jun20.225047.16020@sol.acs.unt.edu>
Date: 20 Jun 91 22:50:47 GMT
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net@opal.cs.tu-berlin.de (Oliver Laumann) writes:
>I have installed xntp 1.3 in our network of Sun-3s and Sun-4s running
>SunOS 4.1 and 4.1.1.  On some of the machines xntpd prints

>   xntpd: Previous time adjustment didn't complete

>about once or twice each day, i.e. the old time delta returned by adjtime()
>is non-zero.  Is this normal, or should I worry about it?  Has anybody
>else experienced this?

>Thanks,
>--
>Oliver Laumann    net@tub.cs.tu-berlin.de  net@tub.UUCP  net@tub.BITNET

We solved this by using "tickadj -s -A" before invoking xntp in our rc.local.
The important thing being that -s causes dosynctodr to be turned off in the
kernel.
-- 
Marc St.-Gil, UNIX Systems Administrator   mstgil@{sol,vaxa,vaxb}.acs.unt.edu
 University of North Texas  817/565-2324   mstgil@{ponder,solo}.csci.unt.edu
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