ntpfrob: stepback for RS6000

[Sanjeev Gupta]

ntpfrob has a "-s" mode, to work around "an old AIX bug".

The documentation says:

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()).

I ran this on an old i386 box.

model name    : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz

root at ntpmon:~# uname -a
Linux ntpmon 4.3.0-1-686-pae #1 SMP Debian 4.3.3-7 (2016-01-19) i686
GNU/Linux
root at ntpmon:~# ntpfrob -s
Starting: Fri Feb 26 20:15:37 2016
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 at ntpmon:~#

(note that there are no \n in the output)

Can someone help interpret the results?  Is my Linux 4.3 infected with a
pre-1992 AIX bug?

-- 
Sanjeev Gupta
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