[OpenAFS] bad sinchronization clock from a fileserver

[Joshua Johnson]

--On Wednesday, February 16, 2005 12:59:08 PM -0500 Jeffrey Hutzelman 
<jhutz@cmu.edu> wrote:

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> On Wednesday, February 16, 2005 12:53:29 PM -0500 Derrick J Brashear
> <shadow@dementia.org> wrote:
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>> On Wed, 16 Feb 2005, rogbazan wrote:
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>>> 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?
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>> afsd -nosettime.
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>> and you should be running ntpd on all your servers.
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> ... and all your clients.  Jim is right; the time synchronization done by
> the cache manager should be used only as a last resort.
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> Also, you should be using real NTP from http://www.ntp.org/ and not the
> ancient stuff that's included in the openafs distribution.
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> -- Jeffrey T. Hutzelman (N3NHS) <jhutz+@cmu.edu>
>    Sr. Research Systems Programmer
>    School of Computer Science - Research Computing Facility
>    Carnegie Mellon University - Pittsburgh, PA
>


I'll add http://www.openntpd.org to the list as well ....

Joshua Johnson