[OpenAFS] Problems with clocks synchronization

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Wed, 16 Jul 2003, [ISO-8859-1] Rogelio Bazán Reyes wrote:

> Hi, i have the following situation:
> A client machine running Solaris 8.0, os patch level 19, and IBM
> Transarc AFS 3.7xx, in the /var/adm/messages appears several messages
> per day indicating that the clock was synchronized with one of the file
> servers in my cell. This message is like that:
>
> Jul   15   09:53:38  localhost  afs: [ID 446265 kern.notice]  afs:
>  setting clock back 2 seconds (via 120.20.2.247 in cell mycell.com.mx).
>
> The problem  is that this machineis running cicsclient. When the clock
> is synchronized, some cics transanctions are lost.
> Do you know how could i manage these synchronizations, because there are
> several synchronizations during the day, this  is a Big Problem!!!!!!

the -nosettime option to afsd (at startup) will disable them entirely.