[ntp:questions] nanokernel ntp_tick_adj

2008-09-10 Thread Aggie
I'm trying to use ntp_adjtime() in nanokernel, but it was clear to me that what to pass for the tick_update parameter. nanokernel suggests that ntp_tick_adjust() to be called every tick for precision time adjustment, so I hook ntp_tick_adjust() to the tick interrupt function. The question I have n

Re: [ntp:questions] drift file set to -500

2007-12-20 Thread Aggie
On Nov 30, 11:24 pm, Harlan Stenn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Aggie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Aggie> I think I found out where the problem is. VxWorks doesn't have > Aggie> adjtime( ), and the one w

Re: [ntp:questions] drift file set to -500

2007-11-30 Thread Aggie
I think I found out where the problem is. VxWorks doesn't have adjtime( ), and the one we wrote wasn't doing anything. That's what makes the drift to increase to +500 (I think). Does that make sense?? We would like to know what adjtime( ) actually does, so we can rewrite it for VxWorks correctly.

Re: [ntp:questions] drift file set to -500

2007-11-30 Thread Aggie
Harlan, I changed hz to 100 and ran it overnight yesterday. It seemed like it had affect on the drift file problem, because normally the drift file would have already been created after 10 hrs, and complained about 500 value in the drift file. But now the drift file still has not been created yet,

Re: [ntp:questions] drift file set to -500

2007-11-28 Thread Aggie
Harlan, I have been usign the -g option everytime i run ntpd. > Do I recall you said you were using HZ=60? If so, I recommend trying HZ=100 > instead. Ok, I will try that tomorrow. I'm testing how many second I gain without runninig ntpd. Btw, what is the HZ for? what does it do? > If you loo

Re: [ntp:questions] drift file set to -500

2007-11-28 Thread Aggie
David, > That sounds like a permissions error. I did see something similar in > Windows some time back. On Windows, at least, you can read the ntp.drift > file almost any time. Thank you very much. But I don't think it is a permission error, because I'm using "target server" thing which allow m

Re: [ntp:questions] drift file set to -500

2007-11-28 Thread Aggie
Steve, > Restart ntpd after deleting the drift file. I did that. But when I ran it overnight, the drift file with 500 was created, (but the ntp was still running). Last time when I ran it for 3 days, the drift file had a value of -500 in the end, and ntp had stopped sync-ing the clock on the clie

Re: [ntp:questions] drift file set to -500

2007-11-28 Thread Aggie
Richard. > If the hardware is under warranty, you ask the vendor to fix it! If > not, you have a problem! If it's a PC more than three years old, > consider replacing it! PCs will usually last a lot longer than three > years but technology moves so fast that three years is almost synonymous > w

Re: [ntp:questions] drift file set to -500

2007-11-28 Thread Aggie
David, > What happens if you delete the drift file and leave it for a few hours? After I deleted the drift file and left it run overnight, the drift file was not created in the first couple hours and when I checked this morning. ntp.drift and ntp.drift.TEMP were created. ntp.drift couldn't be open

Re: [ntp:questions] drift file set to -500

2007-11-27 Thread Aggie
On Nov 26, 10:54 pm, "David J Taylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] this-bit.nor-this-bit.co.uk> wrote: > Aggie wrote: > > After running NTPD on VxWorks for a couple days, the ntp.drift file > > was set to -500, that made it jump to the infinite loop trying to call > >

Re: [ntp:questions] drift file set to -500

2007-11-27 Thread Aggie
I don't know how much it lose/gain per day yet. I will run it overnight today. If it is indeed a hardware problem, how can I fix it? If it is not, what other problem may it be? I saw someone in the forum who could resolve this problem by changing the HZ varilable in the kernel to 250. But his origi

[ntp:questions] drift file set to -500

2007-11-26 Thread Aggie
After running NTPD on VxWorks for a couple days, the ntp.drift file was set to -500, that made it jump to the infinite loop trying to call adjtime(), but VxWorks doesn't have adjtime(). I read the ntp documentation. It suggests to disable the time-of-year (TOY) clock chip. How do I disable this cl

Re: [ntp:questions] Server and Client can't sync

2007-10-31 Thread Aggie
Brian: Yes, ntpd wasn't run until after the clock change. David: I'm using ntp-dev-4.2.5p83.tar.gz David: I'm using option -g, so i can step more than 1000s. Dear all, I modified the ntp_io.c and undefine HAVE_TIMESTAMP and USE_TIMESTAMP_CMSG by adding #if 0, like the following: /*#if defined(

Re: [ntp:questions] TimeStamp

2007-10-30 Thread Aggie
On Oct 30, 3:51 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Murray) wrote: > >I'm very confused on how ntp do the timestamp. I'm running ntpd on > >vxworks. It seems to me that the receive timestamp and the Transmit > >timestamp are using two different clocks, because when I use ethereal/ > >wireshark to look up th

Re: [ntp:questions] Server and Client can't sync

2007-10-30 Thread Aggie
On Oct 30, 4:01 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Woolley) wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > > Aggie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > To have NTPD run on VxWorks and Windows. Set VxWorks as the Server > > couple minutes, the clock on Windows was changed to 5

[ntp:questions] TimeStamp

2007-10-30 Thread Aggie
Dear all, I'm very confused on how ntp do the timestamp. I'm running ntpd on vxworks. It seems to me that the receive timestamp and the Transmit timestamp are using two different clocks, because when I use ethereal/ wireshark to look up the information of the ntp packet, the Recevie Time Stamp is:

[ntp:questions] Server and Client can't sync

2007-10-30 Thread Aggie
Here's what I want to do: To have NTPD run on VxWorks and Windows. Set VxWorks as the Server and Windows as the Client. My Ulitmate goal is the sync these two clocks. Here's the scenario: Whenever I power cycle VxWorks, it will set the clock to 00:00, Jan 1, 1970. It's default. I wrote a simpl

[ntp:questions] getaddrinfo2: "192.168.0.2" invalid host address.

2007-10-12 Thread Aggie
Sorry for posting the whole output messages. When I run ntpd with the debug option, I get the followings: //please take a quick look. If you do the search on "calling getaddrinfo(192.168.0.2,...)" from the following log, you will see getnetnum: calling getaddrinfo(192.168.0.2,...) reval before =

[ntp:questions] ntpd not running

2007-10-09 Thread Aggie
Dear all, I have been trying to port ntp to vxworks. I finally got it compiled and semi-running on vxworks last week. But here's come another problem. I couldn't start the ntpd service on vxworks. It just got stuck at the infinite loop. Here's what I saw at the 1 Jan 00:00:35 ntpd[49458416]: ntpd

Re: [ntp:questions] Makefile - Add Option

2007-10-03 Thread Aggie
Hey, Thanks, I got it to work. I just needed to reset the environment variable. Thanks... ___ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions

[ntp:questions] Makefile - Add Option

2007-10-02 Thread Aggie
After I "make" the ntpd, I found out the executable generated from "make" can't handle datatype double. Whenever I printf or do any caculation with double, ntpd will hang. Then I wrote a simple hello world program to printf double, it also hangs with regular gcc command. For example: //test.c #i

[ntp:questions] How to Run NTPD

2007-08-30 Thread Aggie
Dear all, I know this may sound stupid =D, but I have been trying for awhile, so here it goes. How to run NTPD on VxWorks. VxWorks is a RTOS, and sp means spawn process. I typed: -> sp(ntpd, "-c", "/romfs/ntp.conf")// at the command prompt, but it gave me this: =

Re: [ntp:questions] Unresolved Symbol

2007-08-28 Thread Aggie
On Aug 9, 11:33 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Woolley) wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > > Aggie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Machine Check > > Machine check should never be the result of software problems (except > kernel ones which leave the hardw

Re: [ntp:questions] ntp.conf

2007-08-23 Thread Aggie
Thank you, everyone!! =D ___ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions

Re: [ntp:questions] Peerstats and Rawstats Info

2007-08-22 Thread Aggie
Thanks Vivian!! It works now. I don't know why mine didn't work before. Thanks a lot. ___ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions

Re: [ntp:questions] Peerstats and Rawstats Info

2007-08-22 Thread Aggie
Hi Viven, How long did it take you to generate the files?? I'm working on the similar things as u. But I couldn't generate any files. Alright, Thanks. ___ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions

Re: [ntp:questions] ntp.conf

2007-08-22 Thread Aggie
Thank you very much. I still don't see any file generated. Here's my ntp.conf: driftfile "C:\Program Files\NTP\etc\ntp.drift" server 192.168.1.2 prefer minpoll 4 maxpoll 4 enable stats statistics clockstats peerstats loopstats rawstats sysstats statsdir "C:\Program Files\NTP\etc\" filegen clock

Re: [ntp:questions] Peerstats and Rawstats Info

2007-08-22 Thread Aggie
Hi Vivien, Can you post ur ntp.conf here? Thanks. Kevin Lam ___ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions

Re: [ntp:questions] Unresolved Symbol

2007-08-21 Thread Aggie
Thank you everyone for the input. I know I suck. After all the advices and suggestion, I think of two problems: 1.) VxWorks doesn't have getpagesize() or _SC_PAGESIZE, so basically I just guess the value. I check the kernel configuration of the VxWorks, and saw the VM page size is 4096. I "assume"

Re: [ntp:questions] ntp.conf

2007-08-21 Thread Aggie
Basically, what i need is how to add to the ntp.conf to record statistics. Thanks =D ___ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions

Re: [ntp:questions] Unresolved Symbol

2007-08-20 Thread Aggie
On Aug 10, 12:15 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Per Hedeland) wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Woolley) writes: > >In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > >Aggie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> Machine Check > > >M

Re: [ntp:questions] Unresolved Symbol

2007-08-20 Thread Aggie
Harlan Stenn, I'm still working on the porting. I will add content to the link as soon as i figure it out. Thanks. ___ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions

[ntp:questions] ntp.conf

2007-08-20 Thread Aggie
Dear all, Here's what I want to do. I want to change the clock on my client machine will automatically adjust when I change the clock on my server machine. And I also want to record the statistics. Here's what I did: I use an ethernet cable connect directly between these two machine. And I'm not

Re: [ntp:questions] Unresolved Symbol

2007-08-10 Thread Aggie
Oh, NO! But it works if I didn't import ntpd. It works if I just want to display hello world on the lcd and blinking the led... ___ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions

Re: [ntp:questions] Unresolved Symbol

2007-08-09 Thread Aggie
Thanks Harlan Stenn, After I edited the adjtime.c with casey's cote, I'm able to load ntpd with no warning about the unresolved symbol. What's next?? How do I test if this ntpd is working or not? I tried to just type ntpd at the prompt and see if it runs, but it gave me error, here's what shown:

Re: [ntp:questions] Unresolved Symbol

2007-08-06 Thread Aggie
What do you mean by "followed the SYS_VXWORKS" code in the tree? I just found out that there's a variable called nofork in ntp, i think i will just need to set this variable to 1, then i won't need to use fork(). Wait() and pipe() are only called in makeshell.cWhat does this file do?? Do i ha

[ntp:questions] Unresolved Symbol

2007-08-06 Thread Aggie
Dear All, I have been working on porting NTP to VxWorks. When I load the ntpd to the target, it gives me a list of unresolved symbols. Here's the list: SetLastError, getpagesize, sys_nerr, adjtime, pipe, wait, fork, sys_errlist, getaddrinfo, cannonicalize_file_name, _exit. The list was longer when