Re: 2.2.0pre1 OOPS on boot.
H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
Mon, 4 Jan 1999 15:08:34 -0800 (PST)
> On Thu, Dec 31, 1998 at 07:19:48AM +0000, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>
> > Not only that, but it is friggin' vital for a time server.
>
> I was under the impression ntp type of thing was stuffed for the
> present under linux anyhow...
>
> I have several machines here, most 2.0.36 and some 2.1.x and _none_
> of them stay in sync. for more than a couple of days (a week at
> most), many loose sync. three times a days...
>
> Am I doing something silly?
>
> (Almost all UP boxes, xntp3-5.91.tar.gz on some machines,
> xntp3-doc_5.93-2.deb on the rest).
>
Probably. We have no such problems here. Perhaps your source isn't
stable enough (should be *at least* an order of magnitude more stable
than you want the clients to be.)
-hpa
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