The Grey Blog: Configuring NTP server and client on Solaris 10 and Solaris 11

jrgrant said... If you are running your Solaris instance on any form of a virtualization environment, you will want to add the configuration statement "tinker panic 0" to the first line of /etc/inet/ntp.conf. Otherwise, your ntp daemon will quit ("panic")

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