Re: Decstation broken Was: CVS Update@oss.sgi.com: linux

[Ralf Baechle <ralf@oss.sgi.com>]

On Thu, Sep 28, 2000 at 10:00:46PM +0200, Klaus Naumann wrote:

> BTW: What did you actually fix ? ntpdate still doesn't work
> while ntpd seems to work ok.

The NTP API was outdated.

What is the sympthom you observe with ntpdate?

> But ntpdate would be a very good idea because ntpd doesn't handle
> large offsets ...
> And obviously the realtime clock of the Indigo2 doesn't work 
> correctly. So I was calling ntpdate at every bootup to get my 
> system in a usable state. Maciej, can you take a look at ntpdate 
> please ?

I recently found that the Indigo2 apparently has a different realtime
clock from the Indy.  If that's true it explains your observation and
is unrelated the other problems.

  Ralf