Re: clockspeed and AIX 5.1 w/gcc

begin  electrogrammati illius John Peacock

>so I am SOL I guess.  I suppose I will have to run NTP on this box then...

You may want to check out the rdate(8) command of OpenBSD, which
I recently threw correct leap second support (designed after libtai)
and some portability fixes (compiles under GNU/Linux now, d'oh) in.

You can get it by anonymous cvs by:
 cvs -qd [email protected]:/cvs co -PA src/usr.sbin/rdate

The Makefile is PMake, but I think compiling three files and linking
them (define -DNO_UTIL for rdate.c) should not be too much effort if
you do it by yourself.

I have integrated rdate this way:
 - at dial-in (or start-up, if you are "always online")
     rdate -Nv some.ntp.server
 - as a hourly, or twice-horly, cronjob
     rdate -Nav some.ntp.server | logger [send output to syslog]

-N=ntp support as like sntpclock
-a=adjtime() call
-v=be verbose (show how much it adjusted)


Maybe you can be helped with this, maybe not... who knows
-Thorsten
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