Way ahead of you, Paul...I tried the -lntp, to no avail. I forgot to
mention that in my original mail, but I didn't think anyone would suggest
that :)

Hmmm...what's your ntp.conf file?Maybe mine's set up wrong...although I
swer I followed the example in the docs on xntp...

Thanks!

Josh

On Thu, 7 Aug 1997, Paul Goyette wrote:

> 
> On Thu, 7 Aug 1997, Josh Hope wrote:
> 
> > I found this little Linux program on sunsite. I grabbed the source and
> > tried to compile it. It gets the time from a NTP server and sets the clock
> > to that time. Since I'm using NetBSD, this is pretty necessary ;) In 5
> > hours, my clock went off by 10 minutes. In 3 days, it was off by 1 hour.
> 
> Is that all?  When I do my nightly backups to my Exabyte-8200 (running in
> polled-I/O mode 'cuz PDMA doesn't work), my clock loses an hour in an
> hour!  Yes, really, my clock runs at half speed!  :)
> 
> > Anyways, I *do* have xntpd. It's set up correctly, but it doesn't change
> > the setting of my clock! The /etc/ntp.drift file does record correct
> > drift, but it does nothing my clock...
> 
> Hmmm.  ntpd resets the clock just fine for me.
> 
> > Anyways, I grabbed this simple and small program, and tried compilin
> > git...I get the following error:
> > 
> > [otaku@otaku.users.netset.com]% make
> > cc -O2 -DHAVE_ADJTIME   -o getdate getdate.c
> > /var/tmp/cc0251321.o: Undefined symbol `_stime' referenced from text
> > segment
> > *** Error code 1
> > 
> > Stop.
> > 
> > That's real similar to the error I get when trying to compile something
> > that needs -lcrypt at the end of the command line. Except, it's
> > `_scrypt'...
> > 
> > So, is this going to be impossible? Or can I get it working under NetBSD?
> > :)
> 
> Maybe you need to add ``-lntp'' ??  Just guessing, but there _is_ a
> /usr/lib/libntp....
> 
> > 
> > Thanks a lot for any help!
> > 
> > Josh
> > 
> > 
> 
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