Ron,
OUCH, adjtimex should not be kernel specific, and if it compiled I don't
see any good reason for a crash, but given that they are to add adjtimex,
I'd just go with the ntp again, that seemed to be working, and given the
greater understanding of a previous method in the thread, It sounds that it
would eventually calm down the number of lookups after it figured out the
drift amount also.
Dave
On 2/17/02 2:28 PM, "Ron McCall"
I downloaded, built and installed adjtimex-1.13. I stopped xntpd, waited a while for the time to drift and ran adjtimex --compare as is mentioned in the documentation. My machine hung immediately. I had to force reboot and then learn about restoring the journal on my two EXT3 filesystems (system wouldn't boot). I rebooted, stopped xntpd again, waited a while and ran adjtimex --compare again with the same result (though learning how to restore the journal was easier this time ;).
There was no information in the adjtimex documentation that I could see that said anything about needing a certain kernel version. So, should I try an older adjtimex package (1.12) or should I upgrade to the 2.4.16 kernel on SuSE's FTP server and try that with adjtimex 1.13? I am running a stock SuSE 7.3 system with kernel 2.4.12.
Thanks, Ron