Hello folks,
I just inherited a Mac mini G4 (circa 2005) and I'm in the process of turning it into a home server. Everything is working surprisingly well so far, but one thing that has not worked is getting ntpd running. I use ntpd to serve time to my home network and also for some applications on the server that require precise time.
However, it seems that ntpd is unable to update the local time on this PPC machine, incurring abnormally large offset and jitter values for every upstream server within minutes of starting. I can perform an initial synchronization with ntpdate without issue, but ntpd seems unable to keep the clock in sync. When exploring with the ntptime command, I get error code 5 (TIME_ERROR) as described here and here. I've never experienced this issue on Intel/AMD boards.
Has anyone successfully configured ntpd on a PPC installation? If so, please tell me what magic you used! Thanks.
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