<div dir="ltr"><div><div>ntpfrob has a "-s" mode, to work around "an old AIX bug".<br><br></div>The documentation says:<br><br>If the problem is fixed, this program will print the time, sit there for 10 seconds, and exit. If the problem isn't fixed, the program will print an occasional "result=nnnnnn" (the residual slew from adjtime()).<br><br></div>I ran this on an old i386 box.<br><div><br>model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz<br><br>root@ntpmon:~# uname -a<br>Linux ntpmon 4.3.0-1-686-pae #1 SMP Debian 4.3.3-7 (2016-01-19) i686 GNU/Linux<br>root@ntpmon:~# ntpfrob -s<br>Starting: Fri Feb 26 20:15:37 2016<br>result = 0. -1500 result = 0. -1500 result = 0. -1500 result = 0. -1500 result = 0. -1500 result = 0. -1500 result = 0. -1500 result = 0. -1500 result = 0. -1500 root@ntpmon:~# <br><br><div><div>(note that there are no \n in the output)<br></div><div><br>Can someone help interpret the results? Is my Linux 4.3 infected with a pre-1992 AIX bug?<br></div><div><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature">-- <br>Sanjeev Gupta<br>+65 98551208 <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/ghane" target="_blank">http://www.linkedin.com/in/ghane</a></div></div>
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