Joachim Schrod wrote:
Richard B. Gilbert wrote:
Sun's xntpd is about ten years behind the times. Download the current
production version of the NTP distribution from
http://ntp.isc.org/bin/view/Main/SoftwareDownloads
I tried to avoid that because it would place ntpd outside the normal
patch process. Therefore I googled before I posted and checked if I
could find known problems with Sun's xntpd. I didn't found any
mentioning of an oscillation problem.
It was just mentioned that Solaris 8 always slews the clock and "disable
pll" was recommended. (That did not help, as mentioned.) As far as I
understand, the behaviour at my system might be due to a too large
frequency error. Would the update to a current ntp version really help
in that case?
Cheers,
Joachim
Upgrading to the current version of ntpd might not solve your problem.
OTOH, we can't really support Sun's ten year old software here.
I would suggest that you download the current version, build it, and
install it in /opt/local. That will leave Suns version intact and, in
the unlikely event that Sun issues a patch for their version, you will
be able to apply it with no difficulty. Copy /etc/init.d/xntpd to
/etc/init.d/xntpd.original and then edt /etc/init.d/xntpd to use the
version in /opt/local.
Alternatively, you could ask Sun for support (and pay for it).
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