From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 9 12:25:07 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C53FC1065670 for ; Mon, 9 May 2011 12:25:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rwmaillists@googlemail.com) Received: from mail-ew0-f54.google.com (mail-ew0-f54.google.com [209.85.215.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53B068FC0C for ; Mon, 9 May 2011 12:25:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy1 with SMTP id 1so2052911ewy.13 for ; Mon, 09 May 2011 05:25:00 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:date:from:to:subject:message-id:in-reply-to :references:x-mailer:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=K4K3xoz+A9efZ9WSkJq7a3uxX2BPF6eIWTaP2SqUlsc=; b=JPy2hQ1MXH5CKPok3Zp/QpOfJam+KKCXnNnsY26E+rNLY0+hnC/pCJ6RRSpmWJ7Y/1 ENOAk5qXJlfcjxp63/XuKiP4RxLvuzWRbOTiPdamCdmWVum3GFxIgUgSA7XIxRGd0RBu dX7nVMDcLur0B0xWFC13mcNusobbHqD+leLzI= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:x-mailer :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=odCJTN9agxjyg99WvUyicIFtwigEuo9l0J6GmKw3KXDtPhyQs3ImsgTs1mdhPvszrV dS1PXJpEHETLxDZp7iW7Ps1BQD5qDvi9BJe5jZDQvq6ETsZ3A1G+IHDzNnBIvOVYPPFt YexANt08h7EuEDHnMIoX+bMnCTYPKeYftHV8c= Received: by 10.213.106.212 with SMTP id y20mr1155882ebo.0.1304943899609; Mon, 09 May 2011 05:24:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gumby.homeunix.com (87-194-105-247.bethere.co.uk [87.194.105.247]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id l35sm3433393eea.15.2011.05.09.05.24.56 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Mon, 09 May 2011 05:24:57 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 9 May 2011 13:24:53 +0100 From: RW To: ports@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20110509132453.08fa51ba@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <20110508163045.GB50963@magic.hamla.org> References: <20110508092449.1bcbd5dd@seibercom.net> <20110508163045.GB50963@magic.hamla.org> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.9 (GTK+ 2.22.1; i386-portbld-freebsd8.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: Re: Open PR X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 09 May 2011 12:25:07 -0000 On Sun, 8 May 2011 12:30:46 -0400 Sahil Tandon wrote: > On Sun, 2011-05-08 at 09:24:49 -0400, Jerry wrote: > > > I just noticed that there appears to be an old PR, > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=conf/132515 that is still > > open. Has a resolution to this PR ever been resolved? > > I just noted in the audit-trail that I cannot reproduce the problem > mentioned in the PR. Are you (or anyone else) able to reproduce the > faulty behavior? I still use ntpdate myself, but according to Matthew Seaman, since the default ntp.conf now uses the iburst option, ntpd syncs so fast that the use of ntpdate is pretty much redundant. The problem with the patch is that without iburst a separate blocking ntpd instance is too slow to replace ntpdate. With iburst there will be two initial bursts in rapid succession, which could be considered abusive. Personally I've always regarded ntpd_sync_on_start as a non-blocking alternative to ntpdate rather than a drop in replacement, in which case this PR is more a feature request than a bug. Simply replacing the non-blocking option with an inferior version of ntpdate would be a bad idea IMO.