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 1Some major changes were necessary to make xntp v3 run on the DEC Alpha
 2hardware running DEC OSF/1.  All "long" and "u_long" declarations and
 3casts in the code were changed to "LONG" and "U_LONG" and a new header
 4file (include/ntp_types.h) was added.  The new header file defines
 5LONG as int and U_LONG as u_int for the Alpha hardware and as long
 6and u_long for anything else.  A couple of #ifs where changed in
 7ntpq and xntpdc to get the result of a signal defined correctly.  The
 8Config.decosf1 file built the programs here with no problems.
 9
10I don't have a radio clock here, so none of that code has been tested.
11I have run xntpd, xntpdc, xntpres, ntpq, ntpdate, and tickadj under
12DEC OSF/1 v1.2-2 (BL10).
13
14Mike Iglesias                        Internet:    iglesias@draco.acs.uci.edu
15University of California, Irvine     BITNET:      iglesias@uci
16Office of Academic Computing         uucp:        ...!ucbvax!ucivax!iglesias
17Distributed Computing Support        phone:       (714) 856-6926
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19Support for NTP Version 2 is included with the current OSF/1 release. If
20you are upgrading to NTP Version 3 with this distribution, you should not
21use the xntpd or ntpq programs that come with the OSF/1 release. The
22older programs should be replaced by the newer programs of the same name,
23either in situ or via a link to a tranquil spot like /usr/local/bin. The
24make install script in the this distribution don't work due to a silly
25install program incompatibility, so you will need to copy the programs by
26hand.
27
28Don't use the setup utility to install or configure the xntpd installation,
29as it will cheerfully clobber your painstakingly crafted ntp.conf program.
30However, assuming you put this file in /etc/ntp.conf, you can use the
31/sbin/init.d/xntpd script to start and stop the daemon.
32
33This distribution compiles with nominal mumur with the stock cc compiler
34that comes with OSF/1.
35
36Dave Mills
37Electrical Engineering Department
38Unibergisty of Delabunch
39mills@udel.edu
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