Richard B. Gilbert <rgilber...@comcast.net> wrote: > j...@specsol.spam.sux.com wrote: >> Unruh <unruh-s...@physics.ubc.ca> wrote: >>> j...@specsol.spam.sux.com writes: >>> >> >>>> Have you never heard of calling ntpdate before starting the NTP daemon? >>> >>> uh, ntpdate is severely depricated, and ntpd -g is what is supposed to be >>> used. If ntpd -g fails it is a bug. >>> >> >> Uhh, lots of mainline 'nix's don't have a -g option to ntpd and still >> have ntpdate, e.g. Solaris 10. >> > > So download the reference implementation from ntp.org and build your > own! Both Sun's own development tools and gcc and other Gnu stuff are > available in Solaris. Sun's development tools are a separate download > from the web site.
You do understand there are lots of environments where it takes an act of God to be allowed to replace vendor utilities with self compiled versions, don't you? -- Jim Pennino Remove .spam.sux to reply. _______________________________________________ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions