From owner-cvs-all Wed Oct 30 16:24:21 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3ACEA37B404; Wed, 30 Oct 2002 16:24:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from rhadamanth.submonkey.net (pc1-cdif2-4-cust210.cdf.cable.ntl.com [80.4.10.210]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF2E743E75; Wed, 30 Oct 2002 16:24:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from setantae@submonkey.net) Received: from setantae by rhadamanth.submonkey.net with local (Exim 4.10) id 18738D-000IfM-00; Thu, 31 Oct 2002 00:24:17 +0000 Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 00:24:17 +0000 From: Ceri Davies To: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/contrib/ntp/ntpd ntp_control.c ntp_proto.c ntp_resolver.c Message-ID: <20021031002416.GA71735@submonkey.net> Mail-Followup-To: Ceri Davies , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org References: <200210292004.g9TK4RXk049427@repoman.freebsd.org> <20021030191902.GA9924@submonkey.net> <20021030230238.GA74951@tara.freenix.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021030230238.GA74951@tara.freenix.org> X-message-flag: All your linuxconf-configured redhat are belong to us. X-message-flag-attribution: suresh, sdm. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 12:02:38AM +0100, Ollivier Robert wrote: > According to Ceri Davies: > > Does this import bring us any closer to being able to axe ntpdate (i.e., does > > ntpd -q work properly now) ? > > Well, I don't want to go into that flame war (from ntp-hackers) but AFAIK, > there's still some things ntpdate does that ntpd -q or -g doesn't. Ah, ok; I didn't realise this was a religious issue ;) > ntpdate on startup is pretty fast whereas "ntpd -q" can take several minutes > to complete (recollection of ntp-hackers discussions) and that's pretty > unacceptable for many people. Thanks for the clarification. Ceri -- you can't see when light's so strong you can't see when light is gone To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message