[OpenAFS] bad sinchronization clock from a fileserver

[Jeffrey Hutzelman]

On Wednesday, February 16, 2005 12:53:29 PM -0500 Derrick J Brashear 
<shadow@dementia.org> wrote:

> On Wed, 16 Feb 2005, rogbazan wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> how can i check that the clock of a fileserver is taking the time from
>> the sync site??
>> A fileserver of 12, had the clock with 20 minutes more than other.
>> This caused that a Unix Client forward its clock.
>> How can i set up afs client to not synchronize with afs servers?
>
> afsd -nosettime.
>
> and you should be running ntpd on all your servers.

... and all your clients.  Jim is right; the time synchronization done by 
the cache manager should be used only as a last resort.


Also, you should be using real NTP from http://www.ntp.org/ and not the 
ancient stuff that's included in the openafs distribution.

-- Jeffrey T. Hutzelman (N3NHS) <jhutz+@cmu.edu>
   Sr. Research Systems Programmer
   School of Computer Science - Research Computing Facility
   Carnegie Mellon University - Pittsburgh, PA