From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: by oss.sgi.com id ; Thu, 28 Sep 2000 22:51:01 -0700 Received: from pC19F6C93.dip.t-dialin.net ([193.159.108.147]:12811 "HELO scotty.mgnet.de") by oss.sgi.com with SMTP id ; Thu, 28 Sep 2000 22:50:39 -0700 Received: (qmail 19574 invoked from network); 29 Sep 2000 05:50:35 -0000 Received: from spock.mgnet.de (HELO scotty.mgnet.de) (192.168.1.4) by scotty.mgnet.de with SMTP; 29 Sep 2000 05:50:35 -0000 Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 07:50:35 +0200 From: Klaus Naumann To: Ralf Baechle Cc: linux-mips@oss.sgi.com, "Maciej W . Rozycki" Subject: Re: Decstation broken Was: CVS Update@oss.sgi.com: linux Message-ID: <20000929075035.A23290@spock> Reply-To: spock@mgnet.de References: <20000929013954.A8494@bacchus.dhis.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20000929013954.A8494@bacchus.dhis.org>; from ralf@oss.sgi.com on Fri, Sep 29, 2000 at 01:39:54 +0200 X-Mailer: Balsa 0.8.0 Sender: owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk Return-Path: X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips-outgoing On Fri, 29 Sep 2000 01:39:54 Ralf Baechle wrote: > On Thu, Sep 28, 2000 at 10:00:46PM +0200, Klaus Naumann wrote: > > > BTW: What did you actually fix ? ntpdate still doesn't work > > while ntpd seems to work ok. > > The NTP API was outdated. > > What is the sympthom you observe with ntpdate? When I call it it's sleeping for several seconds. And after that I get 29 Sep 07:49:37 ntpdate[10880]: poll(): nfound = 0, error: Operation not permitted which seems to loop then. If I would have a working strace on my box I could tell you more :/ > > But ntpdate would be a very good idea because ntpd doesn't handle > > large offsets ... > > And obviously the realtime clock of the Indigo2 doesn't work > > correctly. So I was calling ntpdate at every bootup to get my > > system in a usable state. Maciej, can you take a look at ntpdate > > please ? > > I recently found that the Indigo2 apparently has a different realtime > clock from the Indy. If that's true it explains your observation and > is unrelated the other problems. Yes, it's of course unrelated to the other problem - it's just an explanation why ntpdate is of real use. CU, Klaus -- Full Name : Klaus Naumann | (http://www.mgnet.de/) (Germany) Nickname : Spock | Org.: Mad Guys Network Phone / FAX : ++49/177/7862964 | E-Mail: (spock@mgnet.de) PGP Key : www.mgnet.de/keys/key_spock.txt