[OpenAFS] problems with runntp

Tino Schwarze tino.schwarze@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de
Fri, 21 Jun 2002 17:52:14 +0200


On Fri, Jun 21, 2002 at 12:42:35PM +0200, Noel Cornejo wrote:

> I cant log from client.
>     klog user 
>     Password:user
> 
> It shows the message bellow:
>     Unable to authenticate to AFs because server and client are badly skewed

Your server and client clocks are more than 5 minutes off sync.

> this is my BosConfig configuration:
>     bnode simple runntp 1
>     parm /usr/afs/bin/runntp -localclock
>     end

Why not just use a recent NTP package? runntp is stone-old. And there
have probably been improvements.

Bye, Tino.

PS: Of course, you'll need NTP on the client as well.

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