Re: xntpd - VERY old folks, how about updating? :-)

[Karl Denninger]

On Sat, Jan 01, 2000 at 11:11:51AM +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Karl Denninger writes:
> 
> >This is not a port, its part of the RELEASE!
> >
> >Its several YEARS old, and doesn't work right - you get lots of STEP changes
> >instead of what you SHOULD get, which is a slew on the system clock.
> 
> Remember to get the kernel code involved.  To do this:
> 
>       create a driftfile containing "0 1\n"
>       start xntpd
> 
> That will help.

No it won't.  I've been running xntpd for oh, four or five years now on
various things.  Yes, the drift file is there (and has been).  Still got the
step time messages.

> The new ntpd is in -CURRENT.

Ok.  I built it as a local binary and install THAT, and the problem
disappeared, so I assume the old "included" one had some kind of problem.

Oh, BTW, Mutt is Y2K complient.  I get no "odd" time displays with messages
I send myself :-)

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