Dennis Clarke wrote: > On 3/7/06, Andy Tucker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 3/6/06, Roland Mainz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm hitting some problems with Solaris guest installations in VMware > > > (e.g. Solaris being the guest in a VMware VM): > > > Sometimes the clock is going out-of-sync. I configured "xntpd" to > > > counteract these issues - but suddenly at one point all hell breaks > > > loose: > > ... > > > > Generally configuring ntp in a guest doesn't work well due since ntpd > > gets confused by the unstable nature of time in a VM (particularly if > > the host is busy) and gives up. > > So we are stuck with a crontab entry for root like so : > > # Try to Keep time > 11 * * * * /root/bin/ntpdate -B -o 3 -p 8 -s -t 5 -v my.favorite.ntp.server > > Then home that drift is only a second or so per hour ... ick
Currently "xntpd" does that job, too: -- snip -- Mar 7 17:42:23 silo04 xntpd[775]: [ID 774427 daemon.notice] time reset (step) 2.975875 s Mar 7 17:52:16 silo04 xntpd[775]: [ID 774427 daemon.notice] time reset (step) 2.095312 s Mar 7 18:04:28 silo04 xntpd[775]: [ID 774427 daemon.notice] time reset (step) 1.675151 s Mar 7 18:21:52 silo04 xntpd[775]: [ID 774427 daemon.notice] time reset (step) 3.061506 s Mar 7 18:33:18 silo04 xntpd[775]: [ID 774427 daemon.notice] time reset (step) 2.034722 s Mar 7 18:45:30 silo04 xntpd[775]: [ID 774427 daemon.notice] time reset (step) 1.609903 s Mar 7 18:57:42 silo04 xntpd[775]: [ID 774427 daemon.notice] time reset (step) 3.070431 s -- snip -- The only complaint was that it suddenly stopped to adjust/sync the time which screwed-up lots of stuff... ;-( ---- Bye, Roland -- __ . . __ (o.\ \/ /.o) [EMAIL PROTECTED] \__\/\/__/ MPEG specialist, C&&JAVA&&Sun&&Unix programmer /O /==\ O\ TEL +49 641 7950090 (;O/ \/ \O;) _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
