Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1998 23:07:26 +0800 (WST) From: Dean Hollister <dean@odyssey.apana.org.au> To: Norman C Rice <nrice@emu.sourcee.com> Cc: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Jim Cassata <jim@web-ex.com> Subject: Re: xntpd Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9810112306510.28317-100000@odyssey.apana.org.au> In-Reply-To: <19981011105352.A17471@emu.sourcee.com>
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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
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