Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2002 10:26:07 -0200 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@tcoip.com.br> To: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@tcoip.com.br> Cc: "Brian J. McGovern" <mcgovern@spoon.beta.com>, qa@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NTP on 5.x Message-ID: <3DE60B5F.3040209@tcoip.com.br> In-Reply-To: <200211271653.gARGrRTY013408@spoon.beta.com> References: <200211271653.gARGrRTY013408@spoon.beta.com> <3DE4E0A9.9030303@tcoip.com.br>
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Daniel C. Sobral wrote:
> Brian J. McGovern wrote:
>
> > > I noticed, the worst way possible, that there are a couple of
> > > differences between ntp activation between -stable and -current.
> > >
> > > First, xntpd is now called ntpd.
> >
> > Umm, its been this way for quite awhile. From a 4.7
> > /etc/defaults/rc.conf...
> >
> > xntpd_program="/usr/sbin/ntpd" # path to ntpd, if you want a
> > different one.
> >
> > This has been true since at least 4.0, IIRC.
>
>
> Let me clarify, then. xntpd_enable is now ntpd_enable. It has been
> pointed out to me, though, that there is a glue for xntpd.
>
> > > Second, ntpdate now reads /etc/ntp.conf. Not much of a problem,
> but on
> > > -stable it's common practice to change ntpdate_flags to point to
> > the server.
> >
> > >From the man page for ntpd, the FILES section:
> >
> > /etc/ntp.conf the default name of the configuration file
>
>
> Yes, this is a good thing. But ntpdate, which is different from ntpd,
> did *not* read this file before. Well, it doesn't now either. It's a
> script thingy.
And now let me contradict myself. It only does this on NetBSD. For us,
we have to pass the servers on ntpdate_flags. <sigh>
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