From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 23 19:15:26 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C468716A417 for ; Mon, 23 Jul 2007 19:15:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from LoN_Kamikaze@gmx.de) Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2A6C713C478 for ; Mon, 23 Jul 2007 19:15:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from LoN_Kamikaze@gmx.de) Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 23 Jul 2007 19:15:24 -0000 Received: from nat-wh-1.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de (EHLO mobileKamikaze.norad) [129.13.72.169] by mail.gmx.net (mp058) with SMTP; 23 Jul 2007 21:15:24 +0200 X-Authenticated: #5465401 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1+HazpIm8OH71gJJEoniglgs2Q7zXy5jnw7YATKse b4gFkBzFhqHZwV Message-ID: <46A4FE4B.8040608@gmx.de> Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 21:15:23 +0200 From: "[LoN]Kamikaze" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.5 (X11/20070721) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG References: <200707231410.l6NEA6Do034748@lurza.secnetix.de> In-Reply-To: <200707231410.l6NEA6Do034748@lurza.secnetix.de> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Cc: Subject: Re: ntpd just sits there and does nothing X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 19:15:26 -0000 Oliver Fromme wrote: > [LoN]Kamikaze wrote: > > My original intention was just to say that openntpd works just out of the box, > > while ntpd doesn't. > > That's just plain wrong. ntpd _does_ work out of the box > (unless your configuration is broken), and it seems to be > more accurate than openntpd. Obviously I'm too stupid to configure ntpd by myself. Thanks for all the effort. I have watched ntpd do its magic for an hour, now. And it seems to aim at running my clock half a second behind the server clocks. Maybe I just didn't watch long enough, I understand that ntpd is trying to figure out how much my clock goes wrong and only adjusts time very slowly. > Demanding to replace ntpd with openntpd in the FreeBSD > base system because you cannot get the configuration right > is ridiculous. I wasn't really demanding, but saying that I'd (personally) prefer openntpd. And my original argument still stands, it's much simpler than ntpd and though I lack the intelligence to configure ntpd, it suffices for openntpd. Seeing that nobody seems to agree with me, I'm happy with running openntpd from ports.