https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=463470 Summary: YAST ntp reference clock configuration not functional - ntp appears to not have refclock support Product: openSUSE 11.1 Version: Final Platform: All OS/Version: openSUSE 11.1 Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: YaST2 AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: hvengel@astound.net QAContact: jsrain@novell.com Found By: Community User After applying the LinuxPPS patch set to the default kernel and configuring and installing it (and successfully testing the PPS functionality) I was unable to get the YAST ntp configuration utilities to correctly configure an Oncore reference clock. It appears that this part of YAST is still "a work in progress" since it does not do stuff that is required to make a reference clock work. I was trying to configure ntp to use a Motorola Oncore UT+ GPS. For the Oncore the missing things include: 1. It does not create the /etc/ntp.oncore.<0..9> configuration files for the Oncore and has no way to set or change the configuration items in these file(s). 2. It only allows setting up one symlink for the hardware but for most reference clocks, including the Oncore, two symlinks are needed to make the refclock driver work. One for the PPS device and one for the device that is used to talk to and get time information from the reference clock (normally a serial port). 3. It does not have a way to setup pps line discipline which needs to be running when the ntp daemon is started. In addition once I discovered that the YAST ntp stuff did not correctly handle refclock configuration I hand configured /etc/ntp.conf and /etc/ntp.oncore.0. Among other things I setup ntp to create a clockstats file and I also configured the oncore driver to use SHMEM. But when I bumped ntp it did not create a clockstats file and it did not create the SHMEM file. After trying everything I could think of I concluded that the ntp RPM is not built with refclock support. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.