On 2012-01-25, pc <[email protected]> wrote:
> Martin,
>
> Many thanks for your invaluable help/vielen Dank fuer Ihre sehr
> wertvolle Hilfe!
>
> I was unaware of cu, but I was able to use to to verify that /dev/
> ttyS0 was in fact
> showing the correct ASCII strings. From there it was relatively easy
> to get
> everything up & running.
>
> Now there are two remaining issues:
>
>  - Why did 'ntpq -c clockvar' show refclock_states="*NOMINAL" and
> incrementing every second
>    even when there was no cable plugged into the serial port?
>    I'm tempted to regard this as a violation of the Principle of Least
> Astonishment.
>
>  - The OS (CentOS, which is a close relative of RedHat) deletes
> everything in /dev
>    each time it is booted. Is there some recommended way of setting up
> the link
>    /dev/refclock-0 -> /dev/ttyS0?

Put in a new rule into udev to tell it to do this. 

>
> BTW: I'm planning to add another NTP server based on a Garmin GPS18x
> LVC.
>
> Thanks and regards,
> Paul
>
>

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