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

Neulinger, Nathan nneul@umr.edu
Fri, 4 May 2001 15:39:31 -0500


Don't know if there is a officially recommended way, but I personally run
ntpd on all the NT machines as well.

-- Nathan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Shyh-Wei Luan [mailto:luan@almaden.ibm.com]
> Sent: Friday, May 04, 2001 3:08 PM
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> Subject: RE: [OpenAFS] Howto prevent afs from resetting the system
> clock?
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> What is the recommended way for clock synchronization on AFS NT client
> machines?
> 
> Shyh-Wei
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> "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?
> >
> >
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > 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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