Hi everybody!
I have been playing around with xntpd lately. If I understand correctly,
starting xntpd is supposed to set the time_status kernel variable to 0,
resulting in the RTC being updated from the system clock every 11 minutes.
But time_status stays on a value of 64 (adjtimex -p gives status: 64),
meaning the RTC is not synchronized.
To my dissappointment the xntpd documentation is rather technical but not
very practical (no man pages, grepping the html pages for RTC/CMOS/time_status
renders no results).
So my question is how to set this time_status variable to zero ((where) can I
find it in the /proc filesystem). Or do I have to run a cron job to set the
RTC every so often? I would like to avoid this if possible. This is a firewall
machine on which I want to run as little services as possible.
For your information, this is a 6.2 system, with a slim 2.2.14-5.0 kernel. No
PCI support compiled in, freeswan 1.6 patches applied, but I did compile
support for /dev/rtc.
Bye,
Leonard.
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