Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1998 23:12:52 +0930 (CST) From: Matthew Thyer <thyerm@eddie.dsto.defence.gov.au> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Is tickadj still required in -CURRENT ? Message-ID: <199810081342.XAA01038@eddie.dsto.defence.gov.au>
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As the manual tickadj(8) says:
BUGS
Fiddling with kernel variables at run time as a part of ordinary opera-
tions is a hideous practice which is only necessary to make up for defi-
ciencies in the implementation of adjtime(8) in many kernels and/or bro-
kenness of the system clock in some vendors' kernels. It would be much
better if the kernels were fixed and the tickadj program went away.
So, has FreeBSD-CURRENT's kernel been fixed and can tickadj be removed
from the base system ?
I'm asking because to the uninitiated it is not clear whether tickadj
should be used (from reading the manual page) hence its presence in
/etc/rc.conf may cause confusion.
P.S. I run xntp on 2 of my -CURRENT systems but not on my home machine.
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