[email protected] (Hal Murray) writes:

>>Seemed I made myself not totally clear: The system has NO network connection
>>to the outside world, but will be the time source of a little network. (NOT
>>internet-connected, for security reasons.) NTPDATE (which is deprecated
>>anyway) does not work with reference clocks, it can query servers
>>only. 'ntpd -g does not work, because clocks are treated different from
>>servers and the code of NTPD inhibits corrections of more than CLOSETIME
>>(4h) difference.
>>
>>So basically it looks like we would have to bypass sanity checks when '-g'
>>is given.

>Or write a small program that does talk to your refclock
>and sets the time.  Then run it before starting ntpd.

That is of course rediculous since that is what ntp -g is supposed to do.
REplying to a bug report that you can write your own program is true, but not
helpful.
Removing the CLOSETIME check would seem the simplest thing to do.


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