> Does anybody know whether AFS' time syncronization works on client
> machines that never use AFS ? (But have the cache manager running)
>
> The symptom I had was tha a machine was badly out of sync, almost 4
> minutes, but when I logged in to it, (I have an AFS account) the
> machine suddenly made a large time warp to correct time.
It has been our experience that a client will not start syncing time
from an AFS server after it boots, until it accesses a file in a
read-write volume. Additionally, the client may stop syncing, if the
fileserver restarts, until the client accesses a file again, I'm not
sure about that though. Also, the last time I checked a client syncs
from a single AFS server, and will not pick a new one until it
reboots, even if the server it is syncing from is decommissioned. We
eventually just gave up and installed NTP (as a broadcast client) on
our clients, since our routers are broadcast NTP servers anyway.
Jonathon Weiss
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MIT/IS Athena Server Operations
