Re: clock factor file

2012-10-03 Thread jdow
Do you mean adjtime by any chance? Unfortunately the values in its fields do not seem to be well defined. It is part of the initscripts package. {^_^} On 2012/10/02 22:09, g wrote: greetings. in unix, there is a file, name of which i do not recall, used as a 'clock factor' and controls the

Re: clock factor file

2012-10-03 Thread g
On 10/03/2012 06:45 AM, jdow wrote: On 2012/10/02 22:09, g wrote: greetings. in unix, there is a file, name of which i do not recall, used as a 'clock factor' and controls the 'tick rate' for the system clock. is such a file used in scientific linux and what is it's name? tia. Do you

Re: clock factor file

2012-10-03 Thread jdow
On 2012/10/03 01:33, g wrote: On 10/03/2012 06:45 AM, jdow wrote: On 2012/10/02 22:09, g wrote: greetings. in unix, there is a file, name of which i do not recall, used as a 'clock factor' and controls the 'tick rate' for the system clock. is such a file used in scientific linux and what is

Re: Autofs segfaults on 6.3 - and solution

2012-10-03 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 6:53 PM, Konstantin Olchanski olcha...@triumf.ca wrote: On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 04:28:22PM +0200, Gerhard Schneider wrote: After upgrading to 6.3 we were seeing autofs segfaulting on many machines. Something is rotten in the state of Denmark. First busted NIS (no

Re: Autofs segfaults on 6.3 - and solution

2012-10-03 Thread Konstantin Olchanski
On Wed, Oct 03, 2012 at 07:00:00AM -0400, Tom H wrote: On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 6:53 PM, Konstantin Olchanski olcha...@triumf.ca wrote: On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 04:28:22PM +0200, Gerhard Schneider wrote: After upgrading to 6.3 we were seeing autofs segfaulting on many machines. Something

Re: clock factor file

2012-10-03 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 3:02 AM, jdow j...@earthlink.net wrote: On 2012/10/03 01:33, g wrote: as stated in orig post, it was used as a _factor_to_adjust_ the 'tick rate'. no speed up or slow down as 'adj-time' does. I have the impression that Linux tends to be tickless and adjusts itself to

Re: Autofs segfaults on 6.3 - and solution

2012-10-03 Thread Chris Schanzle
On 09/29/2012 10:28 AM, Gerhard Schneider wrote: After upgrading to 6.3 we were seeing autofs segfaulting on many machines. A bug fix can be downloaded via https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=846852 Only as an information if someone is needing it - it seems that we have to wait very

Re: clock factor file

2012-10-03 Thread Paul Robert Marino
Yea but to be clear that's non a dynamic value it has to be configured when the kernel is compiled. Some unix flavors had that option due to odd differences between different versions of their own home grown hardware. That really is an unusual thing to adjust now unless you are running on some

Re: Autofs segfaults on 6.3 - and solution

2012-10-03 Thread Konstantin Olchanski
On Wed, Oct 03, 2012 at 04:38:23PM -0400, Chris Schanzle wrote: On 09/29/2012 10:28 AM, Gerhard Schneider wrote: A bug fix can be downloaded via https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=846852 I am not authorized to access that bug, even with a freebie account - can someone

Re: clock factor file

2012-10-03 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 1:09 AM, g gel...@bellsouth.net wrote: greetings. in unix, there is a file, name of which i do not recall, used as a 'clock factor' and controls the 'tick rate' for the system clock. I assume you mean what' in the the NTP system, in the xntp or ntp packages, and it's

Re: clock factor file

2012-10-03 Thread Paul Robert Marino
Well if I'm right he's talking about either adjusting to a nonstandard tick source which happens either with a nonstandart cpu, bios chip, or an atomic clock. If its a teir 1 (atomic clock) source the ntp documentaion covers this but if its a nonstandard cpu that's an other thing. However ther is

Re: The opposite SL and VirtualBox problem

2012-10-03 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 6:59 PM, David Sommerseth sl+us...@lists.topphemmelig.net wrote: - Original Message - From: Joseph Areeda newsre...@areeda.com To: owner-scientific-linux-us...@listserv.fnal.gov Cc: SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS@LISTSERV.FNAL.GOV Sent: Tuesday, 2 October, 2012 10:51:52