[ntp:questions] Why can't clocks do inital synchronization?

jimp at specsol.spam.sux.com jimp at specsol.spam.sux.com
Tue Jan 6 01:15:04 UTC 2009


Richard B. Gilbert <rgilbert88 at comcast.net> wrote:
> jimp at specsol.spam.sux.com wrote:
>> Unruh <unruh-spam at physics.ubc.ca> wrote:
>>> jimp at specsol.spam.sux.com writes:
>>>
>> 
>>>> Have you never heard of calling ntpdate before starting the NTP daemon?
>>>
>>> uh, ntpdate is severely depricated, and ntpd -g is what is supposed to be
>>> used. If ntpd -g fails it is a bug.
>>>
>> 
>> Uhh, lots of mainline 'nix's don't have a -g option to ntpd and still
>> have ntpdate, e.g. Solaris 10.
>> 
> 
> So download the reference implementation from ntp.org and build your 
> own!  Both Sun's own development tools and gcc and other Gnu stuff are 
> available in Solaris.  Sun's development tools are a separate download 
> from the web site.

You do understand there are lots of environments where it takes an
act of God to be allowed to replace vendor utilities with self
compiled versions, don't you?


-- 
Jim Pennino

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