[ntp:questions] testing slew only mode (-x), not slewing correctly (linux sles10, ntpd v 4.1.1)

David Woolley david at ex.djwhome.demon.invalid
Fri Oct 23 21:30:33 UTC 2009


Brian Utterback wrote:
> 
> The interaction between the OS kernel and the RTC is platform and OS 
> dependent. You should not assume that the RTC plays no role while the 
> system is running.

Possibly, but the only OSes on which I've seen this interaction are 
SunOS 4, and SCO Openserver, on both of which it breaks ntpd and should 
be disabled to avoid frequent stepping.




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