DEC OSF/1 Hints

Last update: April 3, 2024 16:42 UTC (f170361b7)

Some major changes were necessary to make xntp v3 run on the DEC Alpha hardware running DEC OSF/1. All long and u_long declarations and casts in the code were changed to LONG and U_LONG and a new header file (include/ntp_types.h) was added. The new header file defines LONG as int and U_LONG as u_int for the Alpha hardware and as long and u_long for anything else. A couple of #ifs where changed in ntpq and xntpdc to get the result of a signal defined correctly. The Config.decosf1 file built the programs here with no problems.

I don’t have a radio clock here, so none of that code has been tested. I have run xntpd, xntpdc, xntpres, ntpq, ntpdate, and tickadj under DEC OSF/1 v1.2-2 (BL10).

Mike Iglesias                        Internet:    iglesias@draco.acs.uci.edu
University of California, Irvine     BITNET:      iglesias@uci
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Distributed Computing Support        phone:       (714) 856-6926

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Support for NTP Version 2 is included with the current OSF/1 release. If you are upgrading to NTP Version 3 with this distribution, you should not use the xntpd or ntpq programs that come with the OSF/1 release. The older programs should be replaced by the newer programs of the same name, either in situ or via a link to a tranquil spot like /usr/local/bin. The make install script in this distribution doesn’t work due to a silly install program incompatibility, so you will need to copy the programs by hand.

Don’t use the setup utility to install or configure the xntpd installation, as it will cheerfully clobber your painstakingly crafted ntp.conf program. However, assuming you put this file in /etc/ntp.conf, you can use the /sbin/init.d/xntpd script to start and stop the daemon.

This distribution compiles with nominal murmur with the stock cc compiler that comes with OSF/1.

Dave Mills

Electrical Engineering Department

Unibergisty of Delabunch