From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jun 12 10:46:24 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id KAA06532 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 12 Jun 1995 10:46:24 -0700 Received: from kitten.mcs.com (Kitten.mcs.com [192.160.127.90]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id KAA06523 for ; Mon, 12 Jun 1995 10:46:22 -0700 Received: from mailbox.mcs.com (Mailbox.mcs.com [192.160.127.87]) by kitten.mcs.com (8.6.10/8.6.9) with SMTP id MAA16810; Mon, 12 Jun 1995 12:45:57 -0500 Received: by mailbox.mcs.com (/\==/\ Smail3.1.28.1 #28.5) id ; Mon, 12 Jun 95 12:36 CDT Received: by mercury.mcs.com (/\==/\ Smail3.1.28.1 #28.5) id ; Mon, 12 Jun 95 12:36 CDT Message-Id: Subject: Re: ntpdate To: mpp@legarto.minn.net (Mike Pritchard) Date: Mon, 12 Jun 1995 12:36:03 -0500 (CDT) From: "Lars Fredriksen" Cc: roberto@blaise.ibp.fr, hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199506101718.MAA17000@mpp.com> from "Mike Pritchard" at Jun 10, 95 12:18:17 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 654 Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Mike Pritchard writes: [stuff deleted] > > > I used to use ntpdate in my old SLIP scripts without any problems, > but they only redirected stdin/out/err to /dev/null and ran > in the background. Maybe some of the controlling tty stuff pppd is > doing screws things up. I might be out of my leauge here, but I tend to agree that there is something screwed up with the "Kerne" ppp line dicipline. You will notice that ping in the background will do the same. Lars -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- Lars Fredriksen fredriks@mcs.com (home) lars@fredriks.pr.mcs.net (home-home) fredriks@asiago.cs.wisc.edu