The time on the EPICS screens is off by 10 minutes again. Por Que?
Its because the ntpd on scipe25 wasn't restarted after the last boot. If someone
knows how to put the ntpd startup into that machine, please do so.
This time I started it up by just going sshing in as controls and then entering:
sudo /usr/sbin/ntpd -c /etc/ntp.conf
which runs it as root and points to the right file.
It takes a few minutes to get going because all of the martian machines have to first fail to
connect to the worldwide pool servers (e.g. 0.pool.ntp.org) before they move on and try linux1
which has a connection to the world. Once it gets it you'll see the time on the EPICS screens
freeze. It then waits until the ntp time catches up with its old, wrong time before updating
again.
According to the Wikipedia, this time is then good to 128 ms or less. |