From owner-freebsd-stable Wed May 17 13:31:53 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from jade.chc-chimes.com (jade.chc-chimes.com [216.28.46.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0880F37BCDB for ; Wed, 17 May 2000 13:31:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from billf@jade.chc-chimes.com) Received: by jade.chc-chimes.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 95ECB1C5C; Wed, 17 May 2000 16:31:43 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 16:31:43 -0400 From: Bill Fumerola To: Peter Jeremy Cc: Harlan Stenn , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Flag for NTP slew only? Message-ID: <20000517163143.M86725@jade.chc-chimes.com> References: <9760.958147629@brown.pfcs.com> <00May18.061829est.115213@border.alcanet.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <00May18.061829est.115213@border.alcanet.com.au>; from peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au on Thu, May 18, 2000 at 06:18:28AM +1000 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.3-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, May 18, 2000 at 06:18:28AM +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote: > 2) Regular use of ntpdate (eg from cron) to keep the system clock > fairly close to real time without the overheads of permanently > running nptd. > > Whilst this is less of an issue for modern systems, people may > still have reasons for not wanting to run ntpd. We have reasons for only running ntpdate, and not keeping ntpd running. (speaking as the administrator of EFNet's irc.lsl.com) -- Bill Fumerola - Network Architect / Computer Horizons Corp - CVM e-mail: billf@chc-chimes.com / billf@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message