From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 11 08:08:04 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA03722 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 11 Oct 1998 08:08:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from odyssey.apana.org.au (odyssey.apana.org.au [203.11.114.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA03670 for ; Sun, 11 Oct 1998 08:07:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dean@odyssey.apana.org.au) Received: from localhost (dean@localhost) by odyssey.apana.org.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id XAA29249; Sun, 11 Oct 1998 23:07:26 +0800 (WST) (envelope-from dean@odyssey.apana.org.au) Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1998 23:07:26 +0800 (WST) From: Dean Hollister To: Norman C Rice cc: David Kelly , questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Jim Cassata Subject: Re: xntpd In-Reply-To: <19981011105352.A17471@emu.sourcee.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 11 Oct 1998, Norman C Rice wrote: > My experience is definitely different from yours. I have found > xntpd spewing the ``drift value xxx invalid'' message into the > log file when an empty drift file existed, where `xxx' was garbage. > I believe that this comes from ntp_util.c where xntpd is attempting > to extract the frequency and mode from the drift file. The fscanf > call returns -1 and atolfp is called with buf uninitialized. > > IIRC, a significant period of time elapsed before the drift file > was created. Hmmm. I found it freaked and just exited. Touching the file appeared to be the solution... Regards, d. +-------------------------------------------------------+ | Dean Hollister, | dean@mushka.ml.org | | Perth, Western Australia. | dean@wa.apana.org.au | +-------------------------------------------------------+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message