From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 17 10:17:39 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 621E916A4CE for ; Thu, 17 Jun 2004 10:17:39 +0000 (GMT) Received: from lurza.secnetix.de (lurza.secnetix.de [83.120.8.8]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70C5B43D5C for ; Thu, 17 Jun 2004 10:17:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from olli@lurza.secnetix.de) Received: from lurza.secnetix.de (qfmhmd@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lurza.secnetix.de (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i5HAGq6F059309; Thu, 17 Jun 2004 12:16:52 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from oliver.fromme@secnetix.de) Received: (from olli@localhost) by lurza.secnetix.de (8.12.11/8.12.11/Submit) id i5HAGqFh059308; Thu, 17 Jun 2004 12:16:52 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from olli) From: Oliver Fromme Message-Id: <200406171016.i5HAGqFh059308@lurza.secnetix.de> To: brad.knowles@skynet.be (Brad Knowles) Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 12:16:52 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: from "Brad Knowles" at Jun 17, 2004 12:09:23 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL3] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 11:36:27 +0000 cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG cc: nakal@web.de Subject: Re: ppp with dynamic IPs and ipfw "me" X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 10:17:39 -0000 Brad Knowles wrote: > At 11:36 AM +0200 2004-06-17, Oliver Fromme wrote: > > [...] > > You can do that automatically with a ppp.linkup script. > > IIRC, there are a variety of shell scripts that have been posted > to perform this function on the comp.protocols.time.ntp newsgroup. > > We should probably take those and work them into a more > standard/robust form and include those in the contrib/ directory in > the tarball. That way, not only could they be used with FreeBSD, but > they could also be used with other OSes which incorporate ntpd into > their standard startup procedures (e.g., MacOS X). > > Disclaimer: I am a contributor to ntp.org, and I'm theoretically > responsible for certain scripts found in the BIND contrib/ directory, > but I don't think that this is an area that I'd be > interested/willing/able to handle myself for NTP. If you've got > something to contribute in this area, I'd be glad to work with you > and the other contributors to get that incorporated. Uhm, well, in my /etc/ppp/ppp.linkup script I simply "killall ntpd" and then restart it with the options from my /etc/rc.conf. It's not really a big deal. If there's a better, cleaner approach to the problem, I'd certainly like to hear about it as well. Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co KG, Oettingenstr. 2, 80538 München Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of secnetix in any way. "The scanf() function is a large and complex beast that often does something almost but not quite entirely unlike what you desired." -- Chris Torek