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Diffstat (limited to 'usr.sbin/xntpd/hints/hpux')
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1 files changed, 42 insertions, 26 deletions
diff --git a/usr.sbin/xntpd/hints/hpux b/usr.sbin/xntpd/hints/hpux index f0b3271..f0e231d 100644 --- a/usr.sbin/xntpd/hints/hpux +++ b/usr.sbin/xntpd/hints/hpux @@ -1,59 +1,63 @@ +Last update: Sun Mar 13 15:05:31 PST 1994 + This file hopefully describes the whatever and however of how to get xntp -running on hpux 8.0 and later s300, s700, and s800. +running on hpux 7.0 and later s300. s400, s700, and s800. First off, all the standard disclaimers hold here ... HP doesn't have anthing to do with this stuff. I fool with it in my spare time because we use it and because I like to. We just happen to have a lot of HP machines around here :-) -Xntp has been in use here for several months and has a fair amount of mileage +Xntpd has been in use here for several years and has a fair amount of mileage on various HP platforms within the company. I can't really guarantee bug fixes but I'd certainly like to hear about bugs and I won't hestitate to look at any fixes sent to me. -Now lets talk OS. If you don't have 8.0 or later, pretty much hang it up now. -This stuff has run here on 8.0 s300, s700, and s800. Its possible that it -runs on 7.0 but I have not tried v3 code on 7.0 at all. +Now lets talk OS. If you don't have 7.0 or later, pretty much hang it up now. +This stuff has run here on pretty much everything from 8.0 upward on s300, +s700, and s800. It is known to run on 7.0 s300/s400 but all reports are +from the field and not my personal experience. -[Note that recent reports state that this release does in fact run on HP -300 and 400 boxes, which run 7.0 - Ed.] +If you are lucky enough to have a s300 or s400 with 9.03, then you no longer +have to worry about adjtimed as HP-UX now has adjtime(2). The rest of you +will have to wait on 10.0 which will have adjtime(2) and a supported though +a bit older version of xntpd. -Next, let me explain a bit about how this stuff works on HP-UX since we don't +Next, let me explain a bit about how this stuff works on HP-UX's that do not have adjtime(2). The directory adjtime contains libadjtime.a and the adjtimed daemon. Instead of the adjtime(2) system call, we use a library routine to talk to adjtimed thru message queues. Adjtimed munges into /dev/kmem and causes the clock to skew properly as needed. PLEASE NOTE that the adjtime code provided here is NOT a general replacement for adjtime(2) ... use of -this adjtime(3)/adjtimed(8) other than here may yield very odd results. +this adjtime(3)/adjtimed(8) other than with xntpd may yield very odd results. What to do to get this stuff running ? - * cd .. - * Say "make makeconfig" + * If you are running an OS less than 10.0 or do not have a s300/s400 + with 9.03 or better + -> cd machines + -> vi hpux + -> (change -DSYS_HPUX=? to match whatever you are running [7,8,9]) + -> cd .. + + * Say "make makeconfig" - * cd .. - * Say "make", sit back for a few minutes. + * Say "make", sit back for a few minutes. * cd authstuff * Say "./authcert < certdata" and check the output. Every line should end with "OK" ... if not, we got trouble. * Now try "./authspeed auth.samplekeys". What we want to remember here is the "authentication delay in CPU time" + * cd .. - * cd .. - * Now we need to install this stuff ... make install will not work - unless you have replaced the SYSV install command with a BSD - compatible version. So ... the simplest thing to do is run - make -n install and do manually what it would have done. + * Say "make install" * I'd suggest reading the xntp docs about now :-) ... seriously !! - * Check out the docs and the stuff in xntp/conf and build a config - file ... put it in /usr/local/etc/xntp.conf (or where ever you - defined the config file to be in Config). One thing we have - added to this version of xntpd is a way to select config files - if you are sharing /usr/local thru NFS or whatever. If the - file /usr/local/etc/xntp.conf happens to be a directory, the files - in that directory are searched until a match is found. The rules - for a match are: + * One thing I have added to this version of xntpd is a way to select + config files if you are sharing /usr/local thru NFS or whatever. + If the file /usr/local/etc/xntp.conf happens to be a directory, the + files in that directory are searched until a match is found. The + rules for a match are: 1. Our hostname 2. default.<machine id> (as in default.375 or default.850) @@ -73,4 +77,16 @@ Possible problems ? * On some 320's and 835's we have had to run adjtimed with "-p 45" or so to get rid of syslog messages about "last adjust did not finish". + * At 9.0, there is a problem with DIAGMON (patch available from the + response center) which causes it to delete the message queue that + adjtimed/xntpd use to communicate. (see next note for result) + + * Xntpd has been known to get really ticked off when adjtime() fails + which is usually only while running the emulation code on HP-UX. + When it gets mad, it usually jumps the clock into never never land. + Possible reasons for this are adjtimed being killed or just never + started or adjtimed being completely swapped out on a really busy + machine (newer adjtimed try to lock themselves in memory to prevent + this one). + Anything else ... just drop me a line at ken@sdd.hp.com |
