[OpenAFS] Howto prevent afs from resetting the system clock?

[Shyh-Wei Luan]

What is the recommended way for clock synchronization on AFS NT client
machines?

Shyh-Wei

"Neulinger, Nathan" <nneul@umr.edu>@openafs.org on 05/02/2001 10:43:39 AM

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: H.G.Borrmann [mailto:borrmann@uni-freiburg.de]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2001 11:20 AM
> To: openafs-info@openafs.org; schulz@iwrmm.math.uni-karlsruhe.de
> Subject: Re: [OpenAFS] Howto prevent afs from resetting the system
> clock?
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> >
> >
> > How can I prevent afs from resetting the system clock?
> >
> > I observed messages about ressetting the system clock on my afs
> > clients. I do run a ntp daemon on them so resetting the clock is a
> > rather bad idea.
> >
>
> It is a bad idea to run ntp on AFS clients. The cache manager
> synchronizes
> the clock with the AFS servers, which should run runntp. I
> use the following
> configuration:

No... that's not true... real ntpd does a LOT better job than afsd does.
What is a bad idea is running both. Ideally, you should probably be running
NTPd on both your afs fileservers and your clients.

-- Nathan
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