[ntp:questions] Inforamtion required
Brad Knowles
brad at stop.mail-abuse.org
Wed Aug 31 08:31:10 UTC 2005
At 6:01 PM +0530 2005-08-30, SivaKumar Subramani wrote:
> We have downloaded the NTP source 3.5-93e and compiled for solaris8
> version and we would like to have some clarification on the below
> mentioned point can anyone help us to resolve this.
Note that this version is ancient. Even version 4.2.0-RELEASE is
almost two years old, and that's the latest official -RELEASE
version, although we have continued to produce updated -STABLE
tarballs since. Version 4.2.1-RELEASE should be coming within the
next couple of weeks or so.
At the very least, you should seriously consider updating to
version 4.2.0-RELEASE.
> 1. We use NTP daemon as client and for synchronize the time with our
> machine and NOT to provide any time services. If the time diff between
> our system to timeserver is too large the daemon comes out and issues a
> log message as "offset : -19698 is too large set clock manually". Our
> system shall always run with local timezone, this can't be able to
> modify. Is there any way to avoid this through conf command.
This has nothing to do with timezone. NTP operates exclusively
in the UTC (Universal Time Coordinated) timezone. All conversions
from UTC to any other timezone are handled as a representation issue
by the system routines which are called to display or provide time
information.
The timezone conversion display routines have been common to
pretty much all computer OSes that have been created in the last
thirty years or so. There's nothing new here.
If your clock is too far out-of-sync, then the NTP daemon will
refuse to try to fix it, and will exit instead. This is normal
behaviour. If you want to try to force the NTP daemon to fix the
time on startup, then you need to make sure that the startup scripts
call it with a "-g" parameter on the command-line.
After startup, if the time offset gets too large, then the NTP
daemon will be unable to correct the clock, and the daemon will kill
itself.
> 2. Is it possible to AVOID the NTP to set my local system time, is there
> any alternative to run my clock without disturbing the system clock.
> We'll be using this time information to forward to someother client, who
> shall maintain the TOD.
If you don't have NTP correct the system clock, just what other
clock do you think that you have in the machine which NTP could
correct?!?
Everything, EVERYTHING, *EVERYTHING*, comes off the system clock.
That is the one and only clock that NTP can monitor and manage.
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