Date: Fri, 30 Aug 1996 12:22:05 +0100 From: Jon Peatfield To: Harlan Stenn cc: Mills@huey.udel.edu, Jon Peatfield , jp107@damtp.cam.ac.uk, jp107@damtp.cam.ac.uk Subject: Re: xntp3-5.85 Message-Id: Content-Length: 1082 Return-Path: X-Mailer: exmh version 1.5.1 12/2/94 In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 29 Aug 1996 23:44:11 EDT." <9608292344.aa00781@whimsy.udel.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Very minor buglett in the driftfile handling, if I have an empty (zero length) driftfile when xntpd starts up I get a logged message: drift value @w^??^Y invalid It might be simpler to just use fscanf "%g" rather than reading a string with %s (which will happily return a zero length string), and then using atolfp on it... Also despite being listed in the comment at the top of xntpd/ntp_config.c as a valid keyword, "authdelay" isn't recognised and it logs: configure: keyword "authdelay" unknown, line ignored Mind you my config file was so old that it still had references to "monitor yes" and "xntpres...". I've packaged up the changes I needed to make it compile under Linux in case anyone else wants them (I cheated on the kernel_pll by just creating a config.cache with that value off so it never does the test). It may be helpful to anyone else wanting to build under Linux 'til a new patch comes out... ftp://ftp.damtp.cam.ac.uk/pub/linux/xntp3-5.85/ There are also binary and source versions in RPM format in case anyone is interested. -- Jon