Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1998 10:53:52 -0400 From: Norman C Rice <nrice@emu.sourcee.com> To: Dean Hollister <dean@odyssey.apana.org.au> Cc: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Jim Cassata <jim@web-ex.com> Subject: Re: xntpd Message-ID: <19981011105352.A17471@emu.sourcee.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9810112148120.10898-100000@odyssey.apana.org.au>; from Dean Hollister on Sun, Oct 11, 1998 at 09:49:47PM %2B0800 References: <19981011092548.A14433@emu.sourcee.com> <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9810112148120.10898-100000@odyssey.apana.org.au>
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On Sun, Oct 11, 1998 at 09:49:47PM +0800, Dean Hollister wrote: > On Sun, 11 Oct 1998, Norman C Rice wrote: > > > If you created the drift file, delete it and restart xntpd so it can create > > the drift file when it's ready too -- have patience. Apparently, xntpd expects > > the drift file to contain valid data if it exists. > > I found xntpd would not start if the drift file did not exist. So, I just > touched it (meant is was 0b length), then started xntpd. No problems > thereafter. 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. -- Regards, Norman C. Rice, Jr. > > 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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