Re: Clock drift?

[is%beverly.rhein.de@localhost (Ignatios Souvatzis)]

Hi Net,

> Hi, All:
> 
> I've just finished installing xntpd on my A3000, running NetBSD 1.2.
> When running under SVR4, I suffered a lossage of time >30 seconds per
> day.  Xntpd would seem to be the answer, but after about 4 hours of
> running, it no longer syncronizes the clock.  I'm guessing that this
> is because the drift on my clock is too great.  Also, the 'tickadj'
> program provided as part of the package wants to use a tickadj of 5
> instead of the kernel value of 40.  When it tries to open /dev/kmem to
> make the change, the open is refused.

Run that as root... manipulating the system clock is as much a
priviledged operation as any other device manipulation.

(Basically, something like this should be in /etc/rc.local...)

Regards,
        Ignatios Souvatzis
        Ignatios Souvatzis