Ken Clapp of Phoenix Home Life Mutual Insurance wrote and presented an SNTP server for OS/390 USS. It was presented at SHARE Boston and Long Beach and is available from the CBT Tape site. As it is coded in assembler is should be portable to VM.
This would allow the sync of the Linux LPAR/Guests to the sysplex timer. On Fri, 11 Jan 2002 17:02:16 -0600, Dennis G. Wicks wrote: >Greetings; > >Linux will set its clock like any well behaved system. If you can and >want to you can set up the usual ntp (Network Time Protocol) functions >and synchronize your linux machines time to the rest of the world. This >requires internet access, which is where the "can" comes in. Or you can >get the time from a time server on your lan. > >Unfortunately, VM and OS can't do this yet. Unless something has been >quietly added in z/VM. I think there is a time server available, but I >haven't investigated it. > >As for the difference between your VM host and the linux guest there are >many possibilities. Choose whether to synchronize to VM or to ROW, >use a date command to set your linux clock and be happy! ;-) > >Good Luck! >Dennis > > > > > >Jean Bedard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 01/11/2002 03:16:46 PM > >Please respond to Linux on 390 Port <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >cc: (bcc: Dennis Wicks/infosvcs/CDG) >Subject: VM and Linux time of day > > > > > >Hi, > >I'm a bit confused here. I thought Linux (SuSE Linux in this case) took the >date and time from VM (or from the hardware), but now I realize that on my >zVM 4.2 system, CP QUERY TIME is currently about 90 seconds ahead of the >results of the Linux "date" command. How can it be? >-- >* Jean Bedard >* VM System Manager S.I.T., Universite Laval >* [EMAIL PROTECTED] (418) 656-2131 ext. 4014 > Jerry Whitteridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice (925) 944 4184 FAX (925) 944 4204 "WorldSecure Server <safeway.com>" made the following annotations on 01/11/02 16:38:13 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Warning: All e-mail sent to this address will be received by the Safeway corporate e-mail system, and is subject to archival and review by someone other than the recipient. This e-mail may contain information proprietary to Safeway and is intended only for the use of the intended recipient(s). If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient(s), you are notified that you have received this message in error and that any review, dissemination, distribution or copying of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately. ==============================================================================
