From owner-freebsd-qa Thu Nov 28 4:26:38 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-qa@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E387C37B401 for ; Thu, 28 Nov 2002 04:26:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.tcoip.com.br (erato.tco.net.br [200.220.254.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E34C43EB2 for ; Thu, 28 Nov 2002 04:26:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dcs@tcoip.com.br) Received: from tcoip.com.br ([10.0.2.6]) by mail.tcoip.com.br (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id gASCQ8V28882; Thu, 28 Nov 2002 10:26:08 -0200 Message-ID: <3DE60B5F.3040209@tcoip.com.br> Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2002 10:26:07 -0200 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021125 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, pt-br, ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Daniel C. Sobral" Cc: "Brian J. McGovern" , qa@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NTP on 5.x References: <200211271653.gARGrRTY013408@spoon.beta.com> <3DE4E0A9.9030303@tcoip.com.br> In-Reply-To: <200211271653.gARGrRTY013408@spoon.beta.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-qa@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) Gerencia de Operacoes Divisao de Comunicacao de Dados Coordenacao de Seguranca TCO Fones: 55-61-313-7654/Cel: 55-61-9618-0904 E-mail: Daniel.Capo@tco.net.br Daniel.Sobral@tcoip.com.br dcs@tcoip.com.br Outros: dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org capo@notorious.bsdconspiracy.net If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry. -- Chekhov To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-qa" in the body of the message