[ntp:questions] New ntp Server

Mark C. Stephens marks at non-stop.com.au
Tue Dec 13 10:14:46 UTC 2011


I just tried Fedora 16, its quite full of bugs from Anaconda to gnome and everything in between!

I understand the political reasons for making the full kernel source so obfuscated to install but I wish they would have some mercy on us guys out in userland.

I may end up installing something like slackware because it doesn't go off the beaten path like the RH based distros.


Amazing

Thanks Anyway, Mark.


-----Original Message-----
From: Miroslav Lichvar [mailto:mlichvar at redhat.com] 
Sent: Thursday, 8 December 2011 10:41 PM
To: questions at lists.ntp.org
Subject: Re: [ntp:questions] New ntp Server

On Thu, Dec 08, 2011 at 03:55:50AM +0000, Mark C. Stephens wrote:
> Oh no I am quite happy with my hp3325A ;)
> 
> 
> Well Okay, after a slight detour trying to get ilo100 to work, I loaded centos 6.0 x64 on the DL165 G2 (computer) and found it has 3.3V PCI slots. So none of my Serial I/O cards fit, being 5V. I have seen people take a dremel to them to cut a 3.3V notch, but I am not a 100% sure this works. 
> 
> Centos 6.0 is really impressive I have to say. Also the PPS kernel module is already built and installed, just need to load it.

The kernel includes general PPS support, but there is no support for PPS on serial devices (pps_ldisc module). You'll probably need to use a newer version of kernel or backport the module to the old version.
You'll also need to recompile the ntp package with the timepps.h header.

It might be easier to try a newer distro. For instance, Fedora 14 and later have kernel, ntp and chrony packages compiled with PPS support and it should work out of the box, even with SELinux enabled :).

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Miroslav Lichvar




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