Having the correct time on your module is critical for all kinds of activities including log synchronization and security certificate validation. Starting in release 15.1 VOS shipped with a port of the Network Time Protocol daemon (ntpd) and it is strongly recommend that you run it. Typically, to run ntpd you need to provide it [...]
I enjoy meeting our VOS and OpenVOS customers. Customers ask me where we are headed with VOS/OpenVOS, and colleagues ask me where we should go with VOS/OpenVOS. I’ve often said that I get my best ideas from our customers. So, let me ask you, our customers, what you would like to see us do with our OpenVOS product [...]
Every now and then someone asks the following question “We added our application port to the services file and now some other application is using it – why”. The answer is because the services file does not reserve port numbers. The services file exists so that applications can call the getservbyname function to find the [...]